{"id":29805,"date":"2025-07-19T23:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29805"},"modified":"2025-07-19T23:14:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:14:50","slug":"the-sadness-and-beauty-of-ha-long-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29805","title":{"rendered":"The sadness and the beauty of Ha Long Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was saddened to hear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5ypd6vr4e7o\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5ypd6vr4e7o\">the news<\/a> of the loss of life in Ha Long Bay in northern Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The location is a spectacular one and I have fond memories of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Indochina.html#NV\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Indochina.html#NV\">my time there<\/a> in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened to hear the news of the loss of life in Ha Long Bay in northern Vietnam. The location is a spectacular one and I have fond memories of my time there in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29805"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29809,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29805\/revisions\/29809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}