{"id":573887542,"date":"2015-01-13T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573887542"},"modified":"2015-01-22T03:05:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T09:05:25","slug":"adventure-antigua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/01\/13\/adventure-antigua\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventure Antigua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We took a bus across the island, driven by a nice older gentleman named Myson. He told us all about his homeland and promised us a great day, of which we would enjoy every minute &#8212; or need professional medical help. <\/p>\n<p>We went kayaking in some of the calm waters of the island which are protected my mango trees. We saw starfish, sea cucumbers, urchins and jellyfish. We took a boat ride out to a place to snorkel, stood on top of a small island staring out into the crashing Atlantic Ocean, got misted on by waves and boat spray, fought currents to swim a bit and then took the boat back to where our kayak adventure started.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FMDPCROFywc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And then Myson arrived to take us back to the cruise ship. The transmission in his bus died. We drove all the way across the island in second gear. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently letting it coast and then popping the clutch is an American thing. <\/p>\n<p>Great island experience, Myson was right &#8212; excite for the parts where he was scaring us to death.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan15\/jan31.jpg\" alt=\"starfish\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan15\/jan32.jpg\" alt=\"urchin\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The view from Great Bird Island, Antigua:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan15\/jan33.jpg\" alt=\"Great Bird Island\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan15\/jan34.jpg\" alt=\"Great Bird Island\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In between bouts of sea spray:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan15\/jan35.jpg\" alt=\"Selfie\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took a bus across the island, driven by a nice older gentleman named Myson. He told us all about his homeland and promised us a great day, of which we would enjoy every minute &#8212; or need professional medical help. We went kayaking in some of the calm waters of the island which are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,63,10,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573887542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-caribbean","category-photo","category-tuesday","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573887542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573887555,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573887542\/revisions\/573887555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573887542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573887542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573887542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}