{"id":26046,"date":"2012-03-02T08:23:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T16:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/?p=26046"},"modified":"2012-03-02T08:23:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T16:23:58","slug":"time-to-get-a-little-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/time-to-get-a-little-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Time To Get A Little Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">OZ Vlog #6:<\/span> Contiki Beaches and Reefs- Outback, Australia<\/h2>\n<p>httpvh:\/\/youtu.be\/4v5Ptbt1sGw<\/p>\n<p>It is actually very refreshing to step away from the sandy beaches and venture inland for a bit of Australian culture.<\/p>\n<p>Today we spent the night in a converted airplane hangar at a local family&#8217;s farm in the outback. There we took part in a tractor ride, learned about Australian beef, and tried whip cracking.<\/p>\n<p><a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7049\/6907949093_1baaa89185_b.jpg\" alt=\"Farmstay, Cattle Country, Australia\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Farmstay, Cattle Country, Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/6907934257\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7207\/6907934257_834df86bcd_b.jpg\" alt=\"Farmstay, Cattle Country, Australia\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tonight I learned two new things about myself:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">I suck at whip cracking<\/strong>.<\/span> I failed to capture it on film but I ended up not being able to make a single whip sound after 5 minutes of trying. I also managed to give myself a whip shaped welt across my lower back for the rest of the evening.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I love karaoke.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span> Our karaoke night was definitely one of my favorite nights on tour. I ended up singing 4 songs:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">A duet to Shania Twain&#8217;s<em>&#8211; That Don&#8217;t Impress Me Much.<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">A duet to <em>Summer Nights <\/em>from Grease with my awesome tour manager John.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">Solo Bon Jovi- <em>Living On A Prayer.<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">A duet to Alannah Myles &#8211; <em>Black Velvet<\/em>, in which I realized afterwards that I didn&#8217;t know the lyrics as well as I thought I did.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a title=\"Farmstay, Cattle Country, Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33736956@N08\/6907965409\/\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7191\/6907965409_04563ecca4_b.jpg\" alt=\"Farmstay, Cattle Country, Australia\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cowboy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Cowboy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh Happy Days!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tractor rides, whip cracking and karaoke Australian style. <i> Australian Outback <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[238,240,580,713,719,810,1002,2045,2868,2873],"class_list":["post-26046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceania","tag-australia","tag-australian-beef","tag-cattle-ranch","tag-contiki","tag-contiki-speacail-stay","tag-travel","tag-farm-stay","tag-outback","tag-travel-video","tag-travel-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}