{"id":2432,"date":"2011-08-01T03:45:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T08:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2011-08-02T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T04:19:00","slug":"beach-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/?p=2432","title":{"rendered":"Beach time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_2434\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/san_juan_del_sur.jpg\" rel=\"gallery[Portfolio]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2434\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2434\" title=\"San Juan del Sur\" src=\"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/san_juan_del_sur-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The Pacific Coast: San Juan del Sur, view from my hostel\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/san_juan_del_sur-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/san_juan_del_sur.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Juan del Sur<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>My Central America experience so far consisted mostly of small underdeveloped villages, dirty dangerous capitals, lots of jungle and volcanoes. Time for a change (I love change). After spending the last week in super hot Managua and Granada, I was planning to visit <a title=\"Ometepe\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ometepe\" target=\"_blank\">Ometepe<\/a>, an island in <em>gran lago de Nicaragua<\/em>\u00a0formed by two volcanoes. But after yet another very hot day in Granada I decided to visit the Pacific coast instead and went to San Juan del Sur. It&#8217;s a small town on a horseshoe-shaped bay with a hill on one side that has a\u00a0over-sized\u00a0Jesus statue on it. It&#8217;s a bit like a miniature version of <a title=\"Wikipedia: Rio\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rio_de_Janeiro\" target=\"_blank\">Rio de Janeiro<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2529\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"gallery[Portfolio]\" href=\"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/san_juan_del_sur_rain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2529\" src=\"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/san_juan_del_sur_rain-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"San Juan del Sur in the rain\" title=\"San Juan del Sur in the rain\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2529\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/san_juan_del_sur_rain-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/san_juan_del_sur_rain-196x196.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rainy day<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is the first time I get close to a proper beach in a while and guess what happened? I lost my swimming trunks a few days ago&#8230; Lot&#8217;s of gringos hang out here in San Juan, surfers as well as party-hungry college kids. I met a bunch of British guys and girls and an American with whom I went partying. It&#8217;s a pretty chill place where I could easily spend a week but I have to move to Costa Rica tomorrow. I am much looking forward to the colder climate over there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Central America experience so far consisted mostly of small underdeveloped villages, dirty dangerous capitals, lots of jungle and volcanoes. Time for a change (I love change). After spending the last week in super hot Managua and Granada, I was planning to visit Ometepe, an island in gran lago de Nicaragua\u00a0formed by two volcanoes. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}