{"id":782,"date":"2016-07-09T17:37:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T00:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelingruby.com\/?p=782"},"modified":"2017-06-03T22:05:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T05:05:08","slug":"the-amazing-islands-of-perhentian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/the-amazing-islands-of-perhentian\/","title":{"rendered":"The amazing islands of Perhentian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mceItemHidden\">For five nights we were in the <span class=\"mceItemHidden\"><span class=\"hiddenSpellError\">Perhentian<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Islands. They are probably the best place in the world. We had LOTS of fun, playing on the beach, swimming, reading. It is a paradise, with turquoise water, tiny sharks, turtles, and other amazing things. we saw 2 adult turtles, and there was a turtle hatching, so I saw baby turtles. We went on a snorkeling trip, and saw a tiny shark. We also saw 2 (also tiny) reef sharks at the beach. I especially loved swimming out to a platform they had. In the middle\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"mceItemHidden\">of the day it was necessary to take a break from swimming, and stay in the room because it was too sunny to stay outside. One night there was a GIANT thunderstorm, and it was POURING. Even walking from the cabin to reception got me soaked. We also saw MONKEYS!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-853\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingrubycom.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/image3.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-852\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingrubycom.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/image2.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_854\" style=\"width: 5322px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-854\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-854\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingrubycom.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/image4.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"5312\" height=\"2988\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">this was taken during a lightning flash at night.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-851\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingrubycom.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/image1.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2992\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-850\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingrubycom.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"522\" height=\"725\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For five nights we were in the Perhentian\u00a0Islands. They are probably the best place in the world. We had LOTS of fun, playing on the beach, swimming, reading. It is a paradise, with turquoise water, tiny sharks, turtles, and other amazing things. we saw 2 adult turtles, and there was a turtle hatching, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameisruby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}