{"id":990,"date":"2013-08-07T04:04:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T04:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=990"},"modified":"2013-08-07T04:04:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T04:04:36","slug":"sailing-the-basque-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2013\/08\/07\/sailing-the-basque-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing the Basque Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/gontzal-brokoa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-991 alignleft\" style=\"border-width: 1px; border-color: black; border-style: solid; margin: 5px;\" alt=\"gontzal-brokoa\" src=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/gontzal-brokoa.jpg\" width=\"366\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/gontzal-brokoa.jpg 458w, https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/gontzal-brokoa-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a>Gontzal Aranguren is an old friend and roommate from my days in Seattle (old in the sense that we&#8217;ve known each other a while, not saying he is an old man (baina, gizon zaharra bada&#8230;)) Since he returned to the Basque Country, he has gotten involved in a number of very interesting and very different projects. His latest takes him onboard the Brokoa, a replica of a XIX century boat that was used to move iron along the Basque coast. They are recreating one of these voyages, from Portugalete to Hondarribi. Gontzal&#8217;s uncle is coordinating the event and asked Gontzal to be involved (that is Gontzal striking a pose in the foreground of the photo).<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newport_Ship\"> XV century Basque ship was found in the harbor of Newport, Wales<\/a>, and so a city councilor and a journalist from Newport were invited to join the crew on this adventure. They have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southwalesargus.co.uk\/news\/gwentnews\/10576906.Argus_man_begins_voyage_of_discovery_on_origins_of_Newport_Ship\/?ref=nt\">written about their experience<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southwalesargus.co.uk\/news\/10587520.Medieval_ship_diary__Tales_of_sailing_the_oceans_____and_tragedy_of_Guernica\/\">South Wales Argus<\/a>, including a diversion down the river Oka to Gernika and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museodelapaz.org\/en\/index_en.php\">Gernika Peace Museum<\/a>, a memorial to the horrors experienced by the townfolk of Gernika, and neighboring towns (I&#8217;ve heard that my dad&#8217;s hometown of Gerrikaitz was also bombed, though, visiting there, I can&#8217;t imagine what lead it to be a target beyond it being a crossroads between several other cities), during the Spanish Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>Gontzal is preparing his own write-up of the adventure and when he posts it online, I&#8217;ll add a link to it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gontzal Aranguren is an old friend and roommate from my days in Seattle (old in the sense that we&#8217;ve known each other a while, not saying he is an old man (baina, gizon zaharra bada&#8230;)) Since he returned to the Basque Country, he has gotten involved in a number of very interesting and very different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[102,701,702,28,546,703,704,705,706,707,708],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-euskadi","category-history","tag-bilbao","tag-boat","tag-brokoa","tag-gernika","tag-gontzal-aranguren","tag-hondarribi","tag-iron","tag-newport","tag-peace-museum","tag-portugalete","tag-wales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sYNu-fY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}