{"id":1237,"date":"2017-05-21T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/uncategorized\/book-traffic\/"},"modified":"2018-06-16T18:18:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T18:18:52","slug":"the-gulf-islands-b-c-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/hip-guide-to-canada\/the-gulf-islands-b-c-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gulf Islands B.C. Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Particularly Gabriola, Hornby and Cortes. Enchanted, laid-back, new-age. <\/p>\n<p>Hornby Island does in fact have hippies. However, the island has become overcrowded and increasingly slick and commercial. Not so &#8220;groovy&#8221; now. <\/p>\n<p>Cortes Island, which is rather remote and is a pleasant looking place, was inundated by marine radiation dumps from government ships about 30 years ago before pollution regulations were enforced. Many people on this island have developed cancer as a result of this, including the majority of the local police department who regularly patrol the area. Under no conditions, would I ever choose to live there, as a hippy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d671551.2785477601!2d-124.03087919992437!3d48.89162624062647!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x548f544b02adaae7%3A0x4c1083615b82f2a6!2sGulf+Islands!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1529173086095\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Particularly Gabriola, Hornby and Cortes. Enchanted, laid-back, new-age. Hornby Island does in fact have hippies. However, the island has become overcrowded and increasingly slick and commercial. Not so &#8220;groovy&#8221; now. Cortes Island, which is rather remote and is a pleasant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/hip-guide-to-canada\/the-gulf-islands-b-c-canada\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[391,193,190,392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiptravelguide.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}