{"id":141,"date":"2012-12-14T10:18:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T02:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.joel.net.au\/?p=141"},"modified":"2012-12-14T10:19:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T02:19:05","slug":"quarantine-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2012\/12\/14\/quarantine-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarantine Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another interesting thing to note about the driving around these parts is all the different agricultural regions and their strict quarantine requirements.  It can be very tricky to stock up on fruit and veggies because every few hundred kilometers you find you have to throw out what you&#8217;ve bought.  Now that I&#8217;m thoroughly ensconced in New South Wales I should be safe for the next few days before I get to Queensland &#8211; where I&#8217;m sure I will have to go through the same process again.   <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.joel.net.au\/?attachment_id=128\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-128\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"128\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2012\/12\/14\/quarantine-madness\/murray3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/murray3.jpg?fit=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,333\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Murray River Meandering \" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Murray River Meandering through agricultural regions in South Australia.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/murray3.jpg?fit=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/murray3.jpg?fit=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/joelday.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/murray3.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"Murray River Meandering through agricultural regions in South Australia.\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/murray3.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/murray3.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray River Meandering through agricultural regions in South Australia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Much of the agriculture relies on the Murray River for irrigation.  This area is where Australia seems to get most of their produce, although Western Australia seems to try growing most of its own.  Prices for produce do seem a lot lower around here, anyway.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.joel.net.au\/?attachment_id=125\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-125\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"125\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2012\/12\/14\/quarantine-madness\/mildura-route\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Mildura-route.jpg?fit=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,333\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Farmland in need of water\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Farmland in need of water next to the Murray River.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Mildura-route.jpg?fit=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Mildura-route.jpg?fit=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/joelday.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Mildura-route.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"Farmland in need of water next to the Murray River.\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Mildura-route.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Mildura-route.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmland in need of water next to the Murray River.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another interesting thing to note about the driving around these parts is all the different agricultural regions and their strict quarantine requirements. It can be very tricky to stock up on fruit and veggies because every few hundred kilometers you find you have to throw out what you&#8217;ve bought. Now that I&#8217;m thoroughly ensconced in&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2012\/12\/14\/quarantine-madness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quarantine Madness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,45,44,13,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-new-south-wales","category-queensland","category-south-australia","category-victoria","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sHuW-2h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}