{"id":15,"date":"2010-12-23T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T16:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/2010\/12\/23\/class_5_roads\/"},"modified":"2010-12-23T16:16:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T16:16:22","slug":"class_5_roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/2010\/12\/23\/class_5_roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Class 5 roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we spent more time at the seashore, at a conservation area accessible by one road &#8212; a dirt road that was heavily affected by hurricane Tomas.&nbsp; Our trip leaders were advised that our tourbus would not be a good idea on this road, so we piled into SUV cabs for a bumpy, splashy, slow ride.&nbsp; The local government doesn&#8217;t dare re-grade these roads until they&#8217;re sure the rainy season is completely over, or the fresh, vulnerable roads will just wash out again.&nbsp; In the meantime, the local 4-wheel-drive cabs are doing a lot of business taking people up and down this road.&nbsp; It&#8217;s still quite hot and humid here for a Bostonian, though there&#8217;s enough of a breeze to make it manageable.<\/p>\n<p>Once we got to our destination, we went on a 2-mile nature walk down to the beach for lunch, seeing more cool tropical birds, trees, lizards, and more monkeys.&nbsp; These guys are white-faced capuchin monkeys.&nbsp; Lis and I have now seen 3 of the 4 monkey types in Costa Rica (red-backed squirrel, howler, and capuchin) and people in our group have seen the 4th (spider monkey).<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DCL_7318_sm.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/costa_rica\/doug2010\/DCL_7318_sm.JPG\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"465\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we travel again, but just a short way up the coast. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we spent more time at the seashore, at a conservation area accessible by one road &#8212; a dirt road that was heavily affected by hurricane Tomas.&nbsp; Our trip leaders were advised that our tourbus would not be a good idea on this road, so we piled into SUV cabs for a bumpy, splashy, slow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/2010\/12\/23\/class_5_roads\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Class 5 roads<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}