{"id":11,"date":"2010-12-20T17:43:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T17:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/2010\/12\/20\/this_is_why_it\/"},"modified":"2010-12-20T17:43:25","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T17:43:25","slug":"this_is_why_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/2010\/12\/20\/this_is_why_it\/","title":{"rendered":"this is why it&#8217;s called a rainforest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After this morning&#8217;s quetzal (pronounced ketz-AHL) hike, we went back out after breakfast to hike to some nearby falls. The group wound up split into two: the slow-walking Birders, and the faster moving Walkers. Doug and I were among the Walkers, who actually made it to the falls, unlike the Birders. The thing I noticed as we hiked along is that every single surface is covered in green&#8211;low growing groundcovers, tall trees, but very few shrubs. <br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_3574_sm.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/costa_rica\/CostaRica\/IMG_3574_sm.JPG\" class=\"mt-image-none\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><br \/>This afternoon, after lunch, we were driven up to the top of a hill in ATVs to take a 3 hour hike down. On the way, it started to pour. Buckets. Another woman and I decided this didn&#8217;t look like fun and came back down, and were soaked through anyway. I spread my stuff around to dry and took a hot shower; Doug appeared only 1 1\/2 hours later, saying they hadn&#8217;t stopped at all, just trudged on down. I&#8217;m glad I missed it. Hopefully there are not too many more rains like that. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After this morning&#8217;s quetzal (pronounced ketz-AHL) hike, we went back out after breakfast to hike to some nearby falls. The group wound up split into two: the slow-walking Birders, and the faster moving Walkers. Doug and I were among the Walkers, who actually made it to the falls, unlike the Birders. The thing I noticed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/2010\/12\/20\/this_is_why_it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">this is why it&#8217;s called a rainforest<\/span> <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":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}