{"id":662,"date":"2010-11-04T17:33:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T17:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=662"},"modified":"2010-11-04T17:33:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T17:33:31","slug":"back-to-the-tropics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2010\/11\/04\/back-to-the-tropics\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the tropics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_664\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-664\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pla-10-0001-lhr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-664\" title=\"Trade Wind, 1931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pla-10-0001-lhr.jpg\" alt=\"Trade Wind, 1931\" width=\"465\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pla-10-0001-lhr.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pla-10-0001-lhr-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trade Wind, 1931<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometime back, <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/sj7iu-coconuts\" target=\"_blank\">coconuts<\/a> mysteriously appeared in a &#8220;Kingston&#8221; photo. Today, the mystery was nearly solved, but not quite. \u00a0This print by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frazerfineart.com\/SearchE2.asp?New=&amp;Cat=Go&amp;Pr=123&amp;Ss=&amp;SubCat=&amp;Pg=1&amp;Kw=&amp;Kt=&amp;AT=HucMazeletLuquiens\">Huc Mazelet Luquiens<\/a>, a Massachusetts-born artist known for his images of Hawaii,\u00a0had been hidden between a silhouette of Abby Bosworth Holmes Jones and the back of the frame that held it. \u00a0At first glance, it appeared to place the coconut party in Hawaii. \u00a0Perhaps Abby and her husband Henry M. Jones bought this print as a souvenir of a trip to the islands, but no, the date at lower left is 1931. \u00a0Abby died in 1922, Henry in 1926.<\/p>\n<p>While the print links Kingston with tropics once again, reminding us that Kingston ships sailed the Pacific throughout the 19th century and into the 20th, still we wonder: where exactly was the coconut party?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Sometime back, coconuts mysteriously appeared in a &#8220;Kingston&#8221; photo. Today, the mystery was nearly solved, but not quite. \u00a0This print by Huc Mazelet Luquiens, a Massachusetts-born artist known for his images of Hawaii,\u00a0had been hidden between a silhouette of Abby Bosworth Holmes Jones and the back of the frame that held it. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2010\/11\/04\/back-to-the-tropics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back to the tropics?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscapes","tag-hawaii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}