{"id":611,"date":"2008-09-22T16:41:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T15:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2008-09-22T16:41:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T15:41:11","slug":"mind-the-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"Mind the gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t realised it was impossible to drive from Central to South America; it turns out there is a 90km stretch of Panama\/Colombia borderland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/2008\/09\/darien-gap-most-dangerous-absence-of.html\" target=\"_blank\">without a road<\/a>. Fancy roughing it in a 4&#215;4? Bad idea. But don&#8217;t take my word for it &#8212; here&#8217;s what what you&#8217;d face, as listed by <strong>Dark Roasted Blend<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>tough nasty jungle with plenty of disagreeable wildlife<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>impenetrable swamps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>crazed drug traffikers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>pissed-off guerrillas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>greedy kidnappers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>paranoid government police<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>no marked trails<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll stick with an aeroplane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t realised it was impossible to drive from Central to South America; it turns out there is a 90km stretch of Panama\/Colombia borderland without a road. Fancy roughing it in a 4&#215;4? Bad idea. But don&#8217;t take my word for it &#8212; here&#8217;s what what you&#8217;d face, as listed by Dark Roasted Blend: tough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}