{"id":1875,"date":"2009-04-11T17:17:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T16:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2009\/04\/11\/local-life\/"},"modified":"2009-04-11T17:17:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T16:17:59","slug":"local-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1875","title":{"rendered":"Local life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had an incredible nights sleep on my boardlike bed, the secret is a quick shower then straight to bed so the latent heat of vaporization cools you down. It&#8217;s great to be woken by the squealer birds, just wish I wasn&#8217;t so stiff  when I woke up. Need to do my pilates again. I visited the local Pilates place here but with all the free weights around, didn&#8217;t look like my kinda place.<\/p>\n<p>I really love exploring new places, and could easily live here for awhile, just wish I could speak the local lingo, although my sign language &#038; smile usually gets me what I want.<\/p>\n<p>The town is not busy today, Good Friday is obviously a big deal here, although it was a very motley group parading behind the cross! So maybe it isn&#8217;t the religious centre of Costa Rica!<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;m meeting up with Evelyne &#038; Mathias from Switzerland  who sold up and have been touring the old British Dominions since January. Would be rather neat as a package tour concept. Tour the red bits of The World,. My Britanica 1890 edition would be ideal as the tour guide \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Finished my Cafe Negro (not cafe solo here) so back to the beach.    <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using the iPhone WordPress application in offline mode, just had major system lockup trying to attach an image \ud83d\ude41 <\/p>\n<p>Thrown out of the original hotel, the owner refused to sell as drinks and switched the wifi off!!<\/p>\n<p>Found another open link now &#8211; this time will keep it&#8217;s location secret \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had an incredible nights sleep on my boardlike bed, the secret is a quick shower then straight to bed so the latent heat of vaporization cools you down. It&#8217;s great to be woken by the squealer birds, just wish I wasn&#8217;t so stiff when I woke up. Need to do my pilates again. I visited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}