{"id":1373,"date":"2015-09-24T01:11:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T01:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2015-09-24T01:11:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T01:11:03","slug":"galapagos-part-1-baltra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1373","title":{"rendered":"Galapagos Part 1: Baltra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_0662.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_0662-500x331.jpg\" alt=\"Baltra\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_0662-500x331.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_0662.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_0662-624x413.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Baltra, the island that houses one of the Galapagos&#8217; two airports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week, we celebrated my mom&#8217;s birthday by visiting the Galapagos with Silversea Expeditions. I didn&#8217;t bring a laptop, so here&#8217;s my attempt at catching up on notes &#038; cleaning up my photography. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_0677.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_0677-500x331.jpg\" alt=\"Safety Drill\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_0677-500x331.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_0677.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/DSC_0677-624x413.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day one, we flew into Baltra (from Guyaquil, from Quito, from Miami, from San Francisco) where we took a short bus ride, then a Zodiac to our home for the next week &#8212; the Silver Galapagos. On board, we met the staff, the guides &#038; did a life vest drill. Then ate a bunch and slept. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltra, the island that houses one of the Galapagos&#8217; two airports Last week, we celebrated my mom&#8217;s birthday by visiting the Galapagos with Silversea Expeditions. I didn&#8217;t bring a laptop, so here&#8217;s my attempt at catching up on notes &#038; cleaning up my photography. Day one, we flew into Baltra (from Guyaquil, from Quito, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[137,136,138],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places","tag-baltra","tag-galapagos","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}