{"id":13588,"date":"2011-04-11T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T07:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=13588"},"modified":"2011-04-15T01:13:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T08:13:31","slug":"marigot-saint-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13588","title":{"rendered":"Marigot, Saint Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next stop on my Caribbean tour was Sint Maarten \/ Saint Martin, a small island split between the Dutch (Sint Maarten) and the French (Saint Martin) .\u00a0 Marigot, the capital of Saint Martin, is home to Fort Saint Louis, Marigot Bay, and a thriving Flea Market .\u00a0 While here, I drank a can of Guarana, a Brazilian\u00c2\u00a0soft drink made from the berry of the guarana plant .\u00a0 Guarana seeds have about twice the caffeine content of coffee beans and, in fact, another name for caffeine is guaranine .\u00a0 I was wide awake for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Fort-St-Louis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13589\" title=\"Fort Saint Louis\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Fort-St-Louis.jpg\" alt=\"Fort Saint Louis\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Fort-St-Louis.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Fort-St-Louis-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Fort-St-Louis-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Fort Saint Louis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Fort Saint Louis (Marigot, Saint Martin, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 01 April 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Marigot-Bay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13590\" title=\"Marigot Bay\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Marigot-Bay.jpg\" alt=\"Marigot Bay\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Marigot-Bay.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Marigot-Bay-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Marigot-Bay-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Marigot Bay<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Marigot Bay\u00c2\u00a0(Marigot, Saint Martin, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 01 April 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Flea-Market.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13591\" title=\"Wares at the Flea Market\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Flea-Market.jpg\" alt=\"Wares at the Flea Market\" width=\"420\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Flea-Market.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Flea-Market-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Flea-Market-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Wares at the Flea Market<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Wares at the Flea Market (Marigot, Saint Martin, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 01 April 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Market-Woman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13592\" title=\"Marigot Market Woman\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Market-Woman.jpg\" alt=\"Marigot Market Woman\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Market-Woman.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Market-Woman-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Market-Woman-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Marigot Market Woman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Marigot Market Woman\u00c2\u00a0(Marigot, Saint Martin, Lesser Antilles); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 01 April 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 Caribbean tour was Sint Maarten \/ Saint Martin, a small island split between the Dutch (Sint Maarten) and the French (Saint Martin) .\u00a0 Marigot, the capital of Saint Martin, is home to Fort Saint Louis, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/13588\">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-13588","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-3xa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588","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=13588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13593,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13588\/revisions\/13593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}