{"id":263,"date":"2026-10-08T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/?p=263"},"modified":"2026-10-01T13:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:35:05","slug":"tesol-worldwide-image-of-the-day-papua-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/2026\/10\/08\/tesol-worldwide-image-of-the-day-papua-new-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"TESOL Worldwide Image of the Day: Papua New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-08-papua-new-guinea-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-08-papua-new-guinea-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-08-papua-new-guinea-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-08-papua-new-guinea-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-08-papua-new-guinea-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-08-papua-new-guinea-1568x1045.webp 1568w, https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-08-papua-new-guinea.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out on the glittering waters off Alotau, carved canoes glide forward in formation \u2014 their prows painted with swirling ancestral designs \u2014 as dancers in feathered headdresses beat the kundu drums and sing the ocean back to life. The Kenu and Kundu Festival honors Papua New Guinea&#8217;s seafaring soul: the canoes that carried trade, ancestors, and entire villages along these coasts. Watching it, you feel how deeply the sea is woven into life in Milne Bay \u2014 not scenery, but family. <a href=\"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/teach-in-Papua-New-Guinea.htm\">Teach English in Papua New Guinea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out on the glittering waters off Alotau, carved canoes glide forward in formation \u2014 their prows painted with swirling ancestral designs \u2014 as dancers in feathered headdresses beat the kundu drums and sing the ocean back to life. The Kenu and Kundu Festival honors Papua New Guinea&#8217;s seafaring soul: the canoes that carried trade, ancestors, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atesol-org","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atesol.org\/teachabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}