{"id":582,"date":"2011-10-03T18:44:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T23:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2020-01-03T14:57:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T19:57:55","slug":"lamu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"Lamu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Lamu last year and mentionned it again in my Zanzibar story this week. Since then, the name has been popping up everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>First there was the &nbsp;murder of a british man and the &nbsp;kidnaping of his wife. It was quite scary but they were alone in a remote resort quite close to the Somali border, so it hapenned in the Lamu area but not on the island per se. Nonetheless, the Canadian government has started issuing warnings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Then &nbsp;there was a big write up in the papers about Kenya wanting to build a big port there, to transit oil from the middle east and goods from everyhwere. That would completely destroy &nbsp;the pristine almost virginal &nbsp;towns there&#8230;What would happen to the Unesco World Heritage Site title?<\/p>\n<p>And this morning news of &nbsp;another kidnapping, this time of a handicapped french woman who had lived there for years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Good thing we visited last year because it does not sound like such a great travel destination right now &#8230;yet it is so beautiful&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Lamu last year and mentionned it again in my Zanzibar story this week. Since then, the name has been popping up everywhere. First there was the &nbsp;murder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5037,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/5037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}