{"id":436,"date":"2013-02-01T00:38:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T05:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/?p=436"},"modified":"2013-02-01T00:43:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T05:43:39","slug":"party-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/2013\/02\/01\/party-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"Party buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Bus2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-438 alignnone\" alt=\"Bus2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Bus2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Bus2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Bus2-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Bus2-450x269.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wrapping up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/2012\/12\/12\/selimiye-mosque\/\">my novel<\/a>, and I just did some of the last research I needed in Panama.\u00c2\u00a0 Among the many cool things I got to see over the past couple of weeks, one of the most amusing was the city buses, most of which are privately owned and, like the one shown here, are heavily personalized by their drivers.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently these decked-out school buses are being replaced by nicer passenger buses, though, so these uniquely painted vehicles might soon be a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>What I wish I had been able to get a picture of was the party buses, which are exactly what they sound like: buses that drive around Panama City at night blaring music and filled with people dancing to strobe lights.\u00c2\u00a0 As you can imagine, though, none of that makes for a good shot.\u00c2\u00a0 Some things you just have to be there for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m wrapping up my novel, and I just did some of the last research I needed in Panama.\u00c2\u00a0 Among the many cool things I got to see over the past couple of weeks, one of the most amusing was the city buses, most of which are privately owned and, like the one shown here, are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436"}],"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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}