{"id":814,"date":"2014-03-01T21:50:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T05:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=814"},"modified":"2014-03-01T22:29:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T06:29:11","slug":"home-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=814","title":{"rendered":"Final countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In little more than a day, I&#8217;m off to Costa Rica. Took a photo of home, and a dinner from the last week to test the camera and the links. (Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/photos\/115521111199859932911\/albums\/5984886115515785377?sort=4\">here<\/a>\u00a0for photos. Please let me know if something is not working).<\/p>\n<p>Those pictures are also to remind me what I get to come back to when I&#8217;m stuck \u00a0for a day or two in a bus station where fluorescent lights draw clouds of bugs with teeth, stingers, or suckers, and the hotel, if any, is too far to walk at 3 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, my hope is to see butterflies larger than your hand. And listen to a cacophony of\u00a0\u00a0howler monkeys. To get there, you have to go there. In some places, avoid a couple of poison snakes, and poison dart frogs. Covered in DEET and netting, too, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>But the ocean beaches are spectacular, I&#8217;m told, and warm weather will be a welcome respite. It snowed here again this morning. I&#8217;ve been told by experienced travelers that Costa Rica is the most beautiful place they have ever been. Two days of work left and\u00a030 hours to get it done, and I can hardly wait.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been decades since I&#8217;ve trekked with no agenda, time targets roughly defined by &#8220;or so.&#8221; I&#8217;ll be in San Jose for a day or so, Jaco for a few days or so, Golfito and David and Boquete for a few days or so each. Back in a month or so.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In little more than a day, I&#8217;m off to Costa Rica. Took a photo of home, and a dinner from the last week to test the camera and the links. (Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/photos\/115521111199859932911\/albums\/5984886115515785377?sort=4\">here<\/a>\u00a0for photos. Please let me know if something is not working).<\/p>\n<p>Those pictures are also to remind me what I get to come back to when I&#8217;m stuck \u00a0for a day or two in a bus station where fluorescent lights draw clouds of bugs with teeth, stingers, or suckers, and the hotel, if any, is too far to walk at 3 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, my hope is  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=814\">Read more\u2026 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[7,8,1],"tags":[251,252],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-my-window","category-outer-limits","category-uncategorized","tag-costa-rica","tag-trekking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mcOb-d8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}