{"id":18,"date":"2016-04-08T14:06:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T02:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/aucklandallies\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2020-02-08T10:35:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T21:35:15","slug":"background-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/aucklandallies\/background-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Background Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a page of links to external information related to the Auckland Allies novels (I have no control over these, and they could vanish without warning), and reference photos and videos I have taken to work from.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Auckland Allies<\/em> (the first book), Sally and Sparx escape from the Blokes in Black via St Kevin&#8217;s Arcade and Myers Park. Here&#8217;s the reference video I took, using a head-mounted GoPro camera:<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cTaN7hfG2zM\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Background Information\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Background Information\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2016-04-08T14:06:34+12:00\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/cTaN7hfG2zM\/default.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cTaN7hfG2zM\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"340\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"560\" \/>\n\t<iframe style=\"border: 0;\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cTaN7hfG2zM\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>In <em>Ghost Bridge<\/em>, the statue of Zealandia plays an important role. You can read all about it, and see some photos,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/timespanner.blogspot.co.nz\/2009\/07\/land-wars-memorial-symonds-street.html\">on the excellent Timespanner blog<\/a>, and get more information about Zealandia <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zealandia_(personification)\">on Wikipedia<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the original New Zealand coat of arms, which shows her as Sally encountered her:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/82\/New_Zealand_Coat_of_Arms_old.gif\" alt=\"NZ coat of arms (1911)\" width=\"149\" height=\"137\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find further background on the Symonds Street Cemetery on <a href=\"https:\/\/forgotten.co.nz\/2014\/10\/23\/symonds-street-cemetery\/\">Forgotten New Zealand<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/fRwrHvQqgQRabWgx7\">Here<\/a> are a few photos I took of the graves under the bridge (which my talented cover artist, Chris Howard, used as references).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aucklandnz.com\/\">Auckland official website<\/a> gives a lot of information about the city in general (mainly from a tourist perspective).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a page of links to external information related to the Auckland Allies novels (I have no control over these, and they could vanish without warning), and reference photos and videos I have taken to work from. In Auckland &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/aucklandallies\/background-information\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/aucklandallies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/aucklandallies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/aucklandallies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/aucklandallies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/aucklandallies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/aucklandallies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/aucklandallies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/aucklandallies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}