{"id":9902,"date":"2015-06-29T06:23:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T11:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=9902"},"modified":"2015-06-29T06:23:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T11:23:01","slug":"our-world-hilos-rainbow-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=9902","title":{"rendered":"Our World &#8211; Hilo&#8217;s Rainbow Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Rainbow Falls Hilo - Topaz Impressions Oil Painting Lasala 55 pct by alnbbates, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/19266230411\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/490\/19266230411_3c044c1ba7_z.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow Falls Hilo - Topaz Impressions Oil Painting Lasala 55 pct\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While visiting <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hilo, Hawaii\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hilo%2C_Hawaii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Hilo<\/a> on the &#8220;<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hawaii (island)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawaii_%28island%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Big Island<\/a>&#8221; of Hawaii our guide took us to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Rainbow Falls (Hawaii)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rainbow_Falls_%28Hawaii%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Rainbow Falls<\/a> just off downtown. The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Wailuku River\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wailuku_River\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Wailuku River<\/a> falls 80 feet. There is a natural cave behind the falls where an Hawaiian goddess, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hina (goddess)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hina_%28goddess%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Hina<\/a> lives. The Hawaiian name for the falls is\u00a0 Wai\u0101nuenue, which means &#8220;Rainbow Water.&#8221; While we didn&#8217;t see a rainbow, the falls are beautiful, mysterious, and magical just like the rest of Hawaii. The state&#8217;s natural beauty just took my breath away. Fortunately they have preserved many of their treasures. Rainbow Falls for example is part of \u00a0the Wailuku State Park.<\/p>\n<h1>Linking with <a href=\"http:\/\/ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Our World Tuesday<\/a><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While visiting Hilo on the &#8220;Big Island&#8221; of Hawaii our guide took us to Rainbow Falls just off downtown. The Wailuku River falls 80 feet. There is a natural cave behind the falls where an Hawaiian goddess, Hina lives. The Hawaiian name for the falls is\u00a0 Wai\u0101nuenue, which means &#8220;Rainbow Water.&#8221; While we didn&#8217;t see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1187,1184,1139,1147,1185,1298,1368,1186],"class_list":["post-9902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-world-tuesday","tag-1187","tag-big-island","tag-hawaii","tag-hawaii-island","tag-hilo","tag-our-world-tuesday","tag-vacation","tag-waterfalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9903,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9902\/revisions\/9903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}