{"id":7891,"date":"2015-05-08T17:33:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T17:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=7891"},"modified":"2024-01-30T09:47:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:47:03","slug":"costa-rica-a-new-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/costa-rica-a-new-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rica: A New Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/me-and-cr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7906 alignright\" alt=\"me and cr\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/me-and-cr.jpg\" width=\"329\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a>When I first saw Costa Rica I was in awe of the amazing views.<\/p>\n<p>Every where you looked there was a enormous mountain covered in lush tropical trees. It\u00a0seemed like a mix of North Carolina and Florida, and combining them you get Costa Rica; only with more humidity than Florida.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose was the most populated area that we were in, as we got to Playa Blanca the towns become less populated and quiet. It was like every local I met was friendly and would always say Hola or Beunos Diaz as you passed by.<\/p>\n<p>As cars passed they would honk at you. It was the Costa Rican way when driving in saying hello instead of a move out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone In Costa Rica lives a very simple life giving off this a unstressed care free feeling. They use a saying over there to explain their way of living\u00a0called Pura Vida. I think I ended up bringing that saying back home with me after living that way\u00a0over our trip.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first saw Costa Rica I was in awe of the amazing views. Every where you looked there was a enormous mountain covered in lush tropical trees. It\u00a0seemed like a mix of North Carolina and Florida, and combining them you get Costa Rica; only with more humidity than Florida. San Jose was the most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/costa-rica-a-new-culture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Costa Rica: A New Culture<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-7891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-abroad","tag-costa-rica-vet-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10340,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions\/10340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}