{"id":120,"date":"2009-05-28T04:55:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T04:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2014-05-20T04:57:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T04:57:37","slug":"149576","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/149576\/","title":{"rendered":"149576"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>turns out guatemala has checkpoints afterall. i&#8217;m not sure what the point was, but it seemed more professional than mexico&#8230;.not too much, though.<br \/>\nthe police stopped all cars on the road and i had to show him my driver&#8217;s license, passport and auto immigration documents he actually looked it over in quite a bit of detail, even comparing the license plate. however, then he asked me where i was from (usa), what my profession was (engineer)&#8230;and then started talking about how rich people in the united states are &#8212; not the best topic when talking to a cop with a gun, my passport and a mouthful of corona&#8217;s (gold embroidered teeth that are all the craze in guatemala&#8230;.each costing up to 600Q&#8230;.see pic).<\/p>\n<p>anyway, cops in guatemala seem more present in guatemala than in mexico. they all drive big blue pickups and you probably see them more often than you do in the us. i saw one guy get pulled over in front of me. the cop was going 60 km\/h (speed limit)&#8230;..and the guy in an expensive looking landrover passed him. not sure what happened next&#8230;.but the landrover passed me 15min later.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-120 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/149576\/corona\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/corona-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-121\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-121'>\n\t\t\t\tcorona\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>turns out guatemala has checkpoints afterall. i&#8217;m not sure what the point was, but it seemed more professional than mexico&#8230;.not too much, though. the police stopped all cars on the road and i had to show him my driver&#8217;s license, passport and auto immigration documents he actually looked it over in quite a bit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sentradiaries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}