  {"id":47432,"date":"2016-06-28T10:26:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T20:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=47432"},"modified":"2019-02-08T15:59:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T01:59:28","slug":"the-pearl-on-the-travel-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/28\/the-pearl-on-the-travel-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pearl on the Travel Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_47435\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47435\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/leeward-pearl-travel-channel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"388\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/leeward-pearl-travel-channel.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/leeward-pearl-travel-channel-260x163.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/leeward-pearl-travel-channel-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filming at The Pearl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">On Sunday, July 3, the Travel Channel&#8217;s premiere episode of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelchannel.com\/shows\/island-explorers\">Island Explorers<\/a><\/em> includes a stop for lunch at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/thepearl\">The Pearl<\/a>, the fine-dining restaurant at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/\">Leeward Community College<\/a>. The episode was filmed in early April and featured a locally-sourced menu created by Chef-Instructor <strong>Ian Riseley<\/strong>. The New York-produced series starring Wendy and Jeremy Gilbert, goes beyond popular attractions to explore the island&#8217;s hidden treasures. It will air on the Travel Channel, July 3 at 8 p.m. <abbr title=\"Hawaii Standard Time\">HST<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47436\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47436\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/leeward-pearl-travel-channel2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"239\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47436\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy and Wendy Gilbert with Ian Riseley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wendy Gilbert is a native of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>, while her husband Jeremy is a transplant from the mainland. In each episode, the couple dives into one island, exploring its most spectacular sights, biggest adventures, best beaches and most enticing places to eat.<\/p>\n<p>Wendy, who portrayed the role of Nina on Disney Junior&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaginationmovers.com\/\">Imagination Movers<\/a><\/em>, returned to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> in 2008. She and her husband Jeremy are the owners\/directors of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasdedeuxhawaii.com\/\">Pas de Deux<\/a> located in Waipahu. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeward <abbr title=\"Leeward Community College\">CC<\/abbr>&#8217;s restaurant will be featured on an episode of <em>Island Explorers<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[184,65,491,71],"class_list":["post-47432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-culinary","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-the-pearl","tag-uh-community-colleges","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47432"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84216,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47432\/revisions\/84216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}