{"id":190,"date":"2007-12-22T09:18:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T07:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/2007\/12\/22\/they-say-things-happen-for-a-reason\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T22:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:10:01","slug":"they-say-things-happen-for-a-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"They Say things happen for a Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Mike<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They say things happen for a reason. I sometimes doubt this but I have been converted this week.<\/p>\n<p>Its now Saturday evening, Last week-end we were relaxing in Tairua with Jo\u2019s family. Paul and Pam came over along with Susan &amp; Gary and 2 German exchange students..<\/p>\n<p>We therefore decided to go to the beach and show the students one of New Zealand\u2019s  hidden treasures, Cathedral Cove.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back up the track to the car park Paul decided to take a short cut through bush walking along a fallen tree trunk.<\/p>\n<p>Jo ran round the track to get a picture of Paul on his slippery walk way. Arriving just before he jumped off Jo turned quickly, bashed her heal on a rock and nearly fell down the hillside, being saved by native tree standing in her way.<\/p>\n<p>Jo being Jo got her picture<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/wheresjo.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/dsc02880.jpg' title='dsc02880.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/__oneclick_uploads\/2007\/12\/dsc02880.thumbnail.jpg' alt='dsc02880.jpg' \/><\/a>along with a very sore heal.<\/p>\n<p>She managed to limp back to the car, but her near death experience caused her to put her foot up for a day or two to recuperate.<\/p>\n<p>This period of rest meant that our planned trip down the east coast was postponed.<\/p>\n<p>Had we both been fighting fit we would have been camping in Gisborne on Thursday. The day the town was hit by an earthquake registering 6.8 on the rickter scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mike They say things happen for a reason. I sometimes doubt this but I have been converted this week. Its now Saturday evening, Last week-end we were relaxing in Tairua with Jo\u2019s family. Paul and Pam came over along &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=190\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qMoz-34","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}