{"id":171,"date":"2011-04-16T12:53:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T16:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/?p=171"},"modified":"2011-04-16T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T19:35:09","slug":"fast-five-in-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/2011\/04\/16\/fast-five-in-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Five in Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_172\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/laconcha.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-172\" title=\"laconcha\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/laconcha-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/laconcha-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/laconcha.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The La Concha hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The movie Fast Five is set in Brazil, but was filmed in Puerto Rico while Alissa and I were there this summer.\u00c2\u00a0 The crew&#8217;s base was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marriott.com\/hotels\/travel\/sjubr-la-concha-renaissance-san-juan-resort\/\">La Concha<\/a>, where Alissa was put up by her office after I headed back to the mainland.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are some images showing how San Juan, Puerto Rico, was transformed into Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The first is a building with a Puerto Rican ambulance parked in front.\u00c2\u00a0 A sign has been affixed to the building identifying it as a Rio de Janeiro fire station (&#8220;Corpo de Bombeiros&#8221; is Portuguese for Corps of Firefighters).\u00c2\u00a0 To the left you can see Brazilian flags and a Brazilian phone booth which have been installed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_3974.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-173\" title=\"IMG_3974\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_3974-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_3974-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_3974-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_3978.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-178\" title=\"IMG_3978\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_3978-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_3978-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_3978-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next is the Puerto Rican Department of Labor building (note the Spanish writing), which has been made to sport a Brazilian flag:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_39773.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-177\" title=\"IMG_3977\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_39773-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_39773-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_39773-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The front of the Labor building has been made to look like an outdoor cafe, complete with a menu sign in Portuguese:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_3979.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-179\" title=\"IMG_3979\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_3979-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_3979-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_3979-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movie Fast Five is set in Brazil, but was filmed in Puerto Rico while Alissa and I were there this summer.\u00c2\u00a0 The crew&#8217;s base was La Concha, where Alissa was put up by her office after I headed back to the mainland.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are some images showing how San Juan, Puerto Rico, was transformed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[41,44,43,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}