{"id":109719,"date":"2015-02-09T23:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T23:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.golf1.is\/?p=109719"},"modified":"2015-02-09T23:05:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T23:05:44","slug":"the-masters-and-northern-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/the-masters-and-northern-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"The Masters and Northern Lights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2015 Masters major will be held during the week of Monday, April 6 through Sunday, April 12.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00b4s probably the dream of every golfer to, at least once in their lifetime, to visit Augusta National and watch the brilliant golf magic of the world\u00b4s best&#8230;. and eat a pimiento cheese sandwich while there.<\/p>\n<p>For golfers on the mainland in Europe a good choice is to travel with Icelandair to one of their destinations, for example to Orlando and then fly up to Augusta or New York and fly down south.<\/p>\n<p>And why not make a Northern Lights stop in Iceland and\/or bathe in the Blue Lagoon before heading to the adventures of the year\u00b4s 1st major? \u00a0One of Icelandair\u00b4s aircraft has even been painted in the colors of the Northern Lights, i.e. TF-FIU Boing 757<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_109721\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.golf1.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-northern-Lights.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109721\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109721\" src=\"http:\/\/www.golf1.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-northern-Lights.jpeg\" alt=\"TF-FIU Boing 757\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-northern-Lights.jpeg 275w, https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-northern-Lights-270x180.jpeg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-109721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TF-FIU Boing 757 carries you to Iceland so that you\u00b4ll hopefully see the Northern Lights. It\u00b4s painted in the colors of \u00a0the Aurora borealis green, yellow and blue<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Northern Lights season in Iceland ends April 15th, since then the daylight takes over and it becomes hard to see the beautiful but also elusive lights who are subject to 3 conditions for those wanting to see them: it needs to be as dark outside as possible, there has to be a clear sky, with\u00a0no cloudcoverage and there needs to be high auroral activity.<\/p>\n<p>When seeing the Northern lights \u00a0it\u00b4s the major of all majors, making this golfvacation a memorable major lifeexperience!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92682\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.golf1.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/augusta_wide-86c7ecf5535f022373ff3f572d1ffdc136c8c083-s6-c301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92682\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-92682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.golf1.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/augusta_wide-86c7ecf5535f022373ff3f572d1ffdc136c8c083-s6-c301-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"The 16th green at Augusta\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/augusta_wide-86c7ecf5535f022373ff3f572d1ffdc136c8c083-s6-c301-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/augusta_wide-86c7ecf5535f022373ff3f572d1ffdc136c8c083-s6-c301-129x73.jpg 129w, https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/augusta_wide-86c7ecf5535f022373ff3f572d1ffdc136c8c083-s6-c301-98x56.jpg 98w, https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/augusta_wide-86c7ecf5535f022373ff3f572d1ffdc136c8c083-s6-c301-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/augusta_wide-86c7ecf5535f022373ff3f572d1ffdc136c8c083-s6-c301-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/augusta_wide-86c7ecf5535f022373ff3f572d1ffdc136c8c083-s6-c301.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-92682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Augusta\u00b4s beautiful rhododendrons at the grenn of Augusta\u00b4s \u00a0par-3 16th green (Redbud).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2015 Masters major will be held during the week of Monday, April 6 through Sunday, April 12. It\u00b4s probably the dream of every golfer to, at least once in their lifetime, to visit Augusta National and watch the brilliant golf magic of the world\u00b4s best&#8230;. and eat a pimiento cheese sandwich while there. For golfers on the mainland in Europe a good choice is to travel with Icelandair to one of their destinations, for example to Orlando and then fly up to Augusta or New York and fly down south. And why not make a Northern Lights stop in Iceland and\/or bathe in the Blue Lagoon before heading to  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/the-masters-and-northern-lights\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","cat-7-id"],"acf":[],"views":1733,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}