{"id":525,"date":"2005-01-17T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=525"},"modified":"2005-01-17T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-17T03:47:00","slug":"island-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"Island time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick post from the computer in the hotel lobby to let folks know that all is well.  We&#8217;ve been snorkeling and bicycling and all the usual resort beach island stuff.  So far the best anecdote involved our visit to &#8220;the hole.&#8221;  This is a limestone sinkhole about 40ft across and 80ft deep.  Would have been great for climbing, if we had a rope.  As it was, the rope that was there was this piece  of frayed nylon from the Nixon era, and I didn&#8217;t like it nearly well enough to trust it with my life.  The Hole was easily the most potentially lethal, least safety equipped attraction I&#8217;ve ever seen.  I mean, *nothing* would have been better than this rope.<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re scheduled for an eco-tourism style kayaking trip. On Wed, I think we may tour the &#8220;Turks Head&#8221; brewery.  I mean, why not?  It&#8217;s the local brewery on the tropical island.  Isn&#8217;t that every homebrewer&#8217;s dream?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick post from the computer in the hotel lobby to let folks know that all is well. We&#8217;ve been snorkeling and bicycling and all the usual resort beach island stuff. So far the best anecdote involved our visit to &#8220;the hole.&#8221; This is a limestone sinkhole about 40ft across and 80ft deep. Would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}