{"id":1245,"date":"2005-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/2005\/11\/02\/theory-on-state-history-revived-polynesian-voyagers-paddled-into-the-santa-barbara-channel\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T07:48:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T07:48:54","slug":"theory-on-state-history-revived-polynesian-voyagers-paddled-into-the-santa-barbara-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2005\/11\/02\/theory-on-state-history-revived-polynesian-voyagers-paddled-into-the-santa-barbara-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Theory on state history revived: Polynesian voyagers paddled into the Santa Barbara Channel&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theory on state history revived<br \/> Polynesian voyagers paddled into the Santa Barbara Channel sometime between A.D. 400 and 800, researchers say<br \/> By STEVE CHAWKINS<br \/> Los Angeles Times<\/p>\n<p>In a newly published paper, two scholars have revived the controversial and long-dead theory that Polynesian sailors visited the California coast centuries before the first European explorers planted their flags here.<\/p>\n<p>It might still be too soon, however, to swap out the Eureka on the state seal with an Aloha.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060501163400\/http:\/\/www.montereyherald.com\/mld\/montereyherald\/news\/13059922.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theory on state history revived Polynesian voyagers paddled into the Santa Barbara Channel sometime between A.D. 400 and 800, researchers say By STEVE CHAWKINS Los Angeles Times In a newly published paper, two scholars&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,141],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-news-clips","tag-evolution-and-human-migration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-k5","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/News-Clips.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/3278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}