{"id":1241,"date":"2013-07-26T18:40:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T18:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2013-07-30T19:07:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T19:07:50","slug":"flying-solo-in-santa-barbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2013\/07\/26\/flying-solo-in-santa-barbara\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying solo in Santa Barbara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah! I visited Santa Barbara a few days ago as my first solo trip! I felt really cool walking down the streets, using my fantab Spanish skills. \ud83d\ude09 I have two family members that live here and they were both so excited when I said that I wanted to see the city. They told me that it was a super cute city and a must see. I have to say that they were right about the cute part. I also agree that Costa Ricans really are very proud of their country and their cities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is supposed to be a fish market in the city and looked for it, but unfortunately didn&#8217;t get to see it, but I did meet some missionaries who were kind enough to try to help me. I love talking to fellow adventurers because you learn a lot and get to swap stories for a few minutes. I left them and everything began to go down hill because I had a hard time following the directions. I felt like that YouTube video Gringo Pinto or maybe that there is a magical block like platform 9 3\/4 that only Costa Ricans can find. Nevertheless, I had fun and made a short vid for you guys. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a1Pura Vida from Costa Rica!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah! I visited Santa Barbara a few days ago as my first solo trip! I felt really cool walking down the streets, using my fantab Spanish skills. \ud83d\ude09 I have two family members that live here and they were both so excited when I said that I wanted to see the city. They told me that it was a super cute city and a must see. I have to say that they were right about the cute part. I also agree that Costa Ricans really are very proud of their country and their cities. &nbsp; There is supposed to be<a href=\"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2013\/07\/26\/flying-solo-in-santa-barbara\/\"> &#8230; \/\/ <b>Read more<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costa-rica"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}