{"id":381,"date":"2009-02-10T23:49:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T18:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2009-02-10T23:50:14","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T18:50:14","slug":"costa-rica-courtesy-of-joe-and-betty-graziano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/costa-rica-courtesy-of-joe-and-betty-graziano\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rica – courtesy of Joe and Betty Graziano"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"photo<\/a>Costa Rica is a trying to preserve a delicate balance between tourism and protection of natural resources. From their deserted beaches to the dry coastal and then misty inland tropical forests, more than 27% of the country’s area is protected. This attracts visitors eager to partake in the pura vida<\/em>, the “pure life” of Costa Rica. <\/p>\n

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Visit these links to a travel site on Lonely Planet.com<\/a>, the US Department of State<\/a> site, or do an internet search of your own. I visited Costa Rica in the 1970’s, too long ago.<\/a>I want to go back!\"Portrait<\/a> <\/p>\n
Joe and Betty Graziano traveled there in January. The photos were many and amazing. I pared them down to create the slideshow below. <\/div>\n
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Costa Rica is a trying to preserve a delicate balance between tourism and protection of natural resources. From their deserted beaches to the dry coastal and then misty inland tropical forests, more than 27% of the country’s area is protected. This attracts visitors eager to partake in the pura vida, the “pure life” of Costa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[183],"tags":[185,11,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}