{"id":13540,"date":"2011-04-05T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=13540"},"modified":"2011-04-11T23:47:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T06:47:18","slug":"natural-bridge-aruba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13540","title":{"rendered":"Natural Bridge, Aruba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natural Bridge was one of Aruba&#8217;s most popular tourist attractions until Mother Nature had her way with it and it collapsed on 02 September 2005 .\u00a0 Still, there is another, smaller, natural bridge nearby .\u00a0 From the beach at Natural Bridge one can enjoy the beautiful, intense blue of the Caribbean .\u00a0 Lizards are common on Aruba .\u00a0 In particular, the Aruba Whiptail Lizard (<em>Cnemidophorus arubensis<\/em>) can be seen around Natural Bridge .\u00a0 The male Whiptails are blue and the females are brown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Ruins-of-the-Natural-Bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13541\" title=\"Ruins of the Natural Bridge\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Ruins-of-the-Natural-Bridge.jpg\" alt=\"Ruins of the Natural Bridge\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Ruins-of-the-Natural-Bridge.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Ruins-of-the-Natural-Bridge-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Ruins-of-the-Natural-Bridge-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Ruins of the Natural Bridge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Ruins of the Natural Bridge (Aruba, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 29 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Smaller-Natural-Bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13542\" title=\"Baby Bridge\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Smaller-Natural-Bridge.jpg\" alt=\"Baby Bridge\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Smaller-Natural-Bridge.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Smaller-Natural-Bridge-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Smaller-Natural-Bridge-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Baby Bridge<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Baby Bridge (Aruba, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 29 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/View-to-the-Sea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13543\" title=\"A View to the Sea\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/View-to-the-Sea.jpg\" alt=\"A View to the Sea\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/View-to-the-Sea.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/View-to-the-Sea-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/View-to-the-Sea-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>A View to the Sea<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0A View to the Sea (Aruba, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 29 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Aruba-Whiptail-Lizard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13544\" title=\"Aruba Whiptail Lizard (Cnemidophorus arubensis)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Aruba-Whiptail-Lizard.jpg\" alt=\"Aruba Whiptail Lizard (Cnemidophorus arubensis)\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Aruba-Whiptail-Lizard.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Aruba-Whiptail-Lizard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Aruba-Whiptail-Lizard-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Aruba Whiptail Lizard (<em>Cnemidophorus arubensis<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Aruba Whiptail Lizard (<em>Cnemidophorus arubensis<\/em>) (Aruba, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 29 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural Bridge was one of Aruba&#8217;s most popular tourist attractions until Mother Nature had her way with it and it collapsed on 02 September 2005 .\u00a0 Still, there is another, smaller, natural bridge nearby .\u00a0 From the beach at Natural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13540\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[273],"class_list":["post-13540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-caribbean-vacation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-3wo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13545,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13540\/revisions\/13545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}