{"id":309,"date":"2013-02-23T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2013-02-23T18:00:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T22:00:53","slug":"sunburned-on-saturday-february-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Sunburned on Saturday, February 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I headed to Playa Conchal this morning with two objectives; to wander into the Westin to inquire about the possibility of hosting a yoga retreat there and snorkeling. The beach entrance to the Westin is for guests only and the security guard would not let me in. If I wanted to talk to a manager, I&#8217;d have to walk the two or three miles back around to the main road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I rented fins and a snorkeling mask from a guy on the beach and headed into the water. The waves were bigger today and, not being a strong swimmer, I didn&#8217;t stay in long. There were a bunch of fish with black stripes and one sort of colorful one, but there weren&#8217;t many or anything else colorful to look at. I was glad I did it, though. It was one of the things I wanted to do here in Costa Rica. Probably better snorkeling if I took a boat trip but I don&#8217;t feel up to motion sickness for a chance to snorkel.<\/p>\n<p>I got in the water further down the beach to body surf in the waves and found both the waves in and out extremely strong, surprisingly so! It is a blistering hot day so I put my towel in the shade and sat for a while. It such a nice relaxing way to spend a couple of hours. Ahhhh!! Just what I was looking for to escape the cold and shoveling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I headed to Playa Conchal this morning with two objectives; to wander into the Westin to inquire about the possibility of hosting a yoga retreat there and snorkeling. The beach entrance to the Westin is for guests only and the security guard would not let me in. If I wanted to talk to a manager, I&#8217;d have to walk the<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/?p=309\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pamlindberg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}