{"id":44,"date":"2008-12-31T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/?p=44"},"modified":"2010-02-06T18:39:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T23:39:29","slug":"hiking-in-basuralandia-garbageland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/31\/hiking-in-basuralandia-garbageland\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking in Basuralandia (Garbageland)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AF2od0kWayE\/SVwH9ZwWfWI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/0qrohreBdZw\/s1600-h\/_DSC0804.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286108814093221218\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 400px; float: right; height: 266px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AF2od0kWayE\/SVwH9ZwWfWI\/AAAAAAAAAKw\/0qrohreBdZw\/s400\/_DSC0804.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AF2od0kWayE\/SVwF80OsrcI\/AAAAAAAAAKo\/d5WE8MqVDKo\/s1600-h\/_DSC0801.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286106604996701634\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 266px; float: right; height: 400px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AF2od0kWayE\/SVwF80OsrcI\/AAAAAAAAAKo\/d5WE8MqVDKo\/s400\/_DSC0801.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>One of the least pleasant aspects of Guatemalan culture is the tendency to throw trash everywhere except in waste bins, which are almost non-existent.<\/div>\n<div>This was especially troublesome when I took one of the hyped hikes to a huge waterfall just outside Nebaj. Athough the falls were very nice, you had to walk through a trail of garbage to get to them. There were signs warning of a fine for throwing garbage, but these were obviously completely ignored.<\/div>\n<div>The river feeding the waterfall runs through the town and is more of an open sewer.<\/div>\n<div>Nonetheless, once past the garbage, the walk was pleasant and the falls were nice.<\/div>\n<div>Just too bad that environmental consciousness is slow to catch on.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_AF2od0kWayE\/SVwCJtMk3sI\/AAAAAAAAAKY\/Nd90ROAv8pY\/s1600-h\/_DSC0809.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286102428400541378\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 266px; float: right; height: 400px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_AF2od0kWayE\/SVwCJtMk3sI\/AAAAAAAAAKY\/Nd90ROAv8pY\/s400\/_DSC0809.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the least pleasant aspects of Guatemalan culture is the tendency to throw trash everywhere except in waste bins, which are almost non-existent. This was especially troublesome when I took one of the hyped hikes to a huge waterfall just outside Nebaj. Athough the falls were very nice, you had to walk through a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-mexico-central-america","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmcguirephoto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}