{"id":224,"date":"2007-03-12T12:20:45","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T16:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2007\/03\/12\/the-volcano-polynesian-awareness\/"},"modified":"2007-03-12T12:20:45","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T16:20:45","slug":"the-volcano-polynesian-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2007\/03\/12\/the-volcano-polynesian-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Volcano &#8211; Polynesian Pop Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/\/uploads\/2007\/03\/volcano.JPG?w=840\" alt=\"Volcano Girls\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is why I encourage everyone to start an entry on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikicentral.com\" title=\"TC\">Tiki Central <\/a>for every known Polynesian Paradise that ever existed.\u00c2\u00a0In August, back in 2004,\u00c2\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/konotiki.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Kono's blog\">Kono<\/a> posted about the Volcano in Winter Haven Florida and a few people added to it. Recently, the daughter of the owner of the Volcano started looking around for information and came across the post. She began finding out more and sharing the family stories, articles and pictures. A wonderful wealth of tiki goodness came out that would likely have dissappeared otherwise.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikiroom.com\/tikicentral\/bb\/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&amp;topic=10483&amp;forum=1&amp;start=0\" title=\"Volcano thread on TC\">Enjoy the thread here <\/a>and add to the Tiki Central database so more kids and grand kids share their findings with us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why I encourage everyone to start an entry on Tiki Central for every known Polynesian Paradise that ever existed.\u00c2\u00a0In August, back in 2004,\u00c2\u00a0Kono posted about the Volcano in <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2007\/03\/12\/the-volcano-polynesian-awareness\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,539,540],"tags":[148,702,386,431],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polynesian-pop","category-retro-goodies","category-retro-preservation","tag-florida","tag-og-tiki-central","tag-tiki-bar","tag-volcano"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p731sH-3C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":334,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2007\/12\/04\/mai-kai-calendar-a-day-45\/","url_meta":{"origin":224,"position":0},"title":"Mai Kai Calendar a Day #45","author":"Swanky","date":"December 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Kainoa is Miss April 1974. 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