{"id":13562,"date":"2011-04-08T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T07:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=13562"},"modified":"2011-04-12T23:59:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T06:59:54","slug":"first-views-of-saint-lucia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13562","title":{"rendered":"First Views of Saint Lucia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next stop on my trip was the island of Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles .\u00a0 The capital of Castries has a sheltered harbor and a small airport .\u00a0 While in Castries I saw several Magnificent Frigatebirds (<em>Fregata magnificens<\/em>) flying overhead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/First-View-of-Saint-Lucia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13563\" title=\"First View of Saint Lucia\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/First-View-of-Saint-Lucia.jpg\" alt=\"First View of Saint Lucia\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/First-View-of-Saint-Lucia.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/First-View-of-Saint-Lucia-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/First-View-of-Saint-Lucia-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>First View of Saint Lucia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 First View of Saint Lucia (Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 31 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Castries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13564\" title=\"George F. L. Charles Airport\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Castries.jpg\" alt=\"George F. L. Charles Airport\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Castries.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Castries-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Castries-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>George F. L. Charles Airport<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0George F. L. Charles Airport (Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 31 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Safe-Harbor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13565\" title=\"Safe Harbor\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Safe-Harbor.jpg\" alt=\"Safe Harbor\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Safe-Harbor.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Safe-Harbor-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Safe-Harbor-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Safe Harbor<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Safe Harbor\u00c2\u00a0(Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 31 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Magnificent-Frigatebird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13566\" title=\"Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens)\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Magnificent-Frigatebird.jpg\" alt=\"Magnificent Frigatebird (Fregata magnificens)\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Magnificent-Frigatebird.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Magnificent-Frigatebird-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Magnificent-Frigatebird-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Magnificent Frigatebird (<em>Fregata magnificens<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Magnificent Frigatebird (<em>Fregata magnificens<\/em>) (Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 31 March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next stop on my trip was the island of Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles .\u00a0 The capital of Castries has a sheltered harbor and a small airport .\u00a0 While in Castries I saw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13562\">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-13562","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-3wK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562","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=13562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13568,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562\/revisions\/13568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}