{"id":52695,"date":"2011-09-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/washington-post-travel-write-up\/"},"modified":"2011-09-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T00:00:00","slug":"washington-post-travel-write-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2011\/09\/27\/washington-post-travel-write-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post travel write-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Washington Post featured a report on travel to the Dominican Republic in a quest to prove the Lonely Planet guidebook wrong. &#8220;The DR isn&#8217;t an especially great destination for shoestring travelers,&#8221; was the Lonely Planet verdict, dismissing it as the land of all-inclusives. <\/p>\n<p>Kevin Charles Redmon set himself a two-week target to see it all: town, country, highlands and coast, coffee farms and fisheries. In the process, he toured Santo Domingo (Colonial City) and Samana (Las Galeras and Playa Rincon). <\/p>\n<p>www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/the-dominican-republic-from-stem-to-stern\/2011\/09\/20\/gIQA1IunqK_story.html\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Washington Post featured a report on travel to the Dominican Republic in a quest to prove the Lonely Planet guidebook wrong. &#8220;The DR isn&#8217;t an especially great destination for shoestring travelers,&#8221; was the Lonely Planet verdict, dismissing it as the land of all-inclusives. Kevin Charles Redmon set himself a two-week target to see &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2011\/09\/27\/washington-post-travel-write-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}