{"id":22,"date":"2012-02-15T18:46:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T18:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailaway.co.za\/sailaway\/?p=22"},"modified":"2014-11-03T16:43:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T14:43:30","slug":"the-dhow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailaway.co.za\/index.php\/the-dhow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dhow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">For more than two thousand years, lateen rigged dhows have been sailing the Indian Ocean, linking economies and people, and creating a cosmopolitan maritime Indian Ocean culture. While trade was the primary rationale, a great variety of people used dhows to cross the oceans: sailors, merchants and settlers. In former days, dhows transported slaves, religious refugees and conquerors.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333399;\"> For centuries, Arab shipwrights crafted boats using sewn construction &#8211; sewing the planks together with coconut fibre cord &#8211; but this craft has more or less died out, being superseded by nailed construction.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than two thousand years, lateen rigged dhows have been sailing the Indian Ocean, linking economies and people, and creating a cosmopolitan maritime Indian Ocean culture. While trade was the primary rationale, a great variety of people used dhows to cross the oceans: sailors, merchants and settlers. In former days, dhows transported slaves, religious&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sailaway.co.za\/index.php\/the-dhow\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailaway.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailaway.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailaway.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailaway.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailaway.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailaway.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailaway.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailaway.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailaway.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailaway.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailaway.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}