{"id":263,"date":"2011-01-08T22:20:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T03:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/?p=263"},"modified":"2011-01-11T22:45:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T03:45:52","slug":"263","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/2011\/01\/263","title":{"rendered":"Flores Chillin&#8217;, Round Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guatemala in general, and Flores in particular, is plagued by a never-ending stream of firecracker explosions. Apparently it&#8217;s a custom to be woken up by firecrackers on your birthday. This morning I woke early and walked around the island, and at 7am I found the asshole who was shooting mortar firecrackers into the sky. I suspected a kid, and it was a full-grown man. Alas.<\/p>\n<p>Today was a kick-back and blog catch-up day. In the afternoon, the homies enjoyed some large frosty beverages on the roof of our hostel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-264\" title=\"IMG_0081\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0081.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0081.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0081-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And we snapped the obligatory sunset shot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-265\" title=\"IMG_0082\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0082.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0082.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_0082-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Julie and I hopped an 8-hour night bus back to <em>Guate<\/em> (Guatemala city). We purchased the tickets from a somewhat sketchy travel agent at the hostel, and at midnight a guy told Julie that he had a reservation for her seat\u2014and he did. Jules chatted up the bus driver and made all well. Guatemala City hooo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guatemala in general, and Flores in particular, is plagued by a never-ending stream of firecracker explosions. Apparently it&#8217;s a custom to be woken up by firecrackers on your birthday. This morning I woke early and walked around the island, and at 7am I found the asshole who was shooting mortar firecrackers into the sky. I [&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-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","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=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}