{"id":273,"date":"2008-11-07T14:53:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T22:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2008-11-07T15:20:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T23:20:51","slug":"skip-back-2-days-and-i-was-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Skip back 2 days and I was here."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><embed id=\"VideoPlayback\" src=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf?docid=1369805548342849272&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=true\" style=\"width:400px;height:326px\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"> <\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Granada, Nicaragua was a stop I made on the way to the Coasta Rica border, before I decided to spend two more days in Nicaragua at the beach resort of San Juan.<\/p>\n<p>I liked Granada. i liked Granada a lot. What I liked about it was what was missing in San Juan sur Mer and why on my second day by the sea I found myself very bored&#8230;authenticity, that&#8217;s what Granada had and San Juan had lost.<\/p>\n<p>An example: you couldn&#8217;t get a raspberry frappe latte in Granada. <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, the natural beauty of San Juan, rivaled the distressed grandeur of Granada, and both should be visited. San Juan however left me struggling for a reason to stay, beyond washing and internet access, and therein lies it&#8217;s attraction. It&#8217;s easy to be there, to enter into a routine, not too dissimilar as to be a challenge. I spoke to more tourists than locals, the locals predominantly serving the tourists needs for food, lodgings and entertainment.<br \/>\nWhat I would say is, it would make a good base for taking spanish lessons and they do provide this service in an abundance, or go if you are a surfer dude or dudette, or, if you are white and want to pretend to be Bob Marley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Granada, Nicaragua was a stop I made on the way to the Coasta Rica border, before I decided to spend two more days in Nicaragua at the beach resort of San Juan. I liked Granada. i liked Granada a lot. What I liked about it was what was missing in San Juan sur Mer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-otr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threecupsoftea.unchainedworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}