{"id":148,"date":"2011-01-03T09:35:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T14:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/?p=148"},"modified":"2011-01-08T13:39:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T18:39:25","slug":"sleeping-in-the-trees-night-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/2011\/01\/sleeping-in-the-trees-night-2","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping in the Trees, Night 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a kick-back day at Mirador. I hung around in my hammock (45 feet up in the air) until noon reading Jim&#8217;s high-action thriller, &#8220;Fault Line&#8221;. A family of spider monkeys swung past the tree and checked me out. What&#8217;s up, distant cousins. Later that afternoon we explored the inner depths of one of the ruins after Jim got special permission from the guard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-198\" title=\"IMG_0034 (480x640) (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0034-480x640-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0034-480x640-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0034-480x640-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I took a long-needed <em>ducha<\/em> (shower) in the fine Mirador facilities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-200\" title=\"IMG_0036 (640x480)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0036-640x4801.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0036-640x4801.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0036-640x4801-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Black plastic and a bucket: that&#8217;s all you need.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-199\" title=\"IMG_0035 (480x640)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0035-480x6401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0035-480x6401.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0035-480x6401-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the day I hung around camp brainstorming about college alternatives. Local wild (but protected) <em>pavos<\/em> (turkeys) pecked nearby.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-197\" title=\"IMG_0037 (640x480)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0037-640x4801.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0037-640x4801.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0037-640x4801-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jim joined us in the Strangler Fig hotel this night. Four hammocks in one tree = difficult but impressive! A cool wind picked up and rocked us to sleep like babies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a kick-back day at Mirador. I hung around in my hammock (45 feet up in the air) until noon reading Jim&#8217;s high-action thriller, &#8220;Fault Line&#8221;. A family of spider monkeys swung past the tree and checked me out. What&#8217;s up, distant cousins. Later that afternoon we explored the inner depths of one of [&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-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}