{"id":402,"date":"2009-03-11T16:19:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T20:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=402"},"modified":"2009-03-11T16:19:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T20:19:43","slug":"in-the-news-links-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/in-the-news-links-edition","title":{"rendered":"In The News &#8211; Links Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A new feature here at <strong>Explorations<\/strong>, every middle of the week we&#8217;ll provide you with quick hits of some of the most recent travel news, articles, anecdotes, tidbits and more that we think are blog-worthy.\u00a0 So, without further ado, let&#8217;s get to the good stuff&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <strong>CNN<\/strong> has a pretty informative article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TRAVEL\/traveltips\/03\/11\/passenger.rights\/index.html?eref=rss_travel\" target=\"_blank\">your rights as a flier<\/a>.\u00a0 <strong>Bottom line<\/strong>: you don&#8217;t have very many (at least in the U.S.).\u00a0<strong> Bonus! <\/strong> learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rule_240\" target=\"_blank\">Rule 240<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <strong>The Frugal Traveler<\/strong> (of the NY Times) seeks out &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/11\/cheap-and-chic-in-milan\/\" target=\"_blank\">the cheap and chic<\/a>&#8221; in Milan.\u00a0 Sounds good to me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <strong>Yahoo! Travel<\/strong> ranks the <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.yahoo.com\/p-interests-25465855;_ylc=X3oDMTF1bzlraDFuBF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEX3MDMjcxOTQ4MQRzZWMDZnAtdG9kYXltb2QEc2xrA3RvdXJpc3RzcG90cy0zLTAxLTA5\" target=\"_blank\">Top Ten U.S. Tourist Attractions<\/a> based on number of visitors.\u00a0 Unsurprisingly, <strong>Times Square is tops<\/strong>.\u00a0 Kind of sad to see D.C.&#8217;s\u00a0 National Mall and Memorials rank below the Vegas Strip&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; The on-again, off-again plan to build a bridge from the Italian Mainland to Sicily is&#8230;back on again.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/97634146-0a89-11de-95ed-0000779fd2ac.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Financial Times has more<\/a>.\u00a0 And check out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/multimedia\/archive\/01351\/sicily_1351210c.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">computer-generated image <\/a>of what the bridge <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">may<\/span> will look like.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this week.\u00a0 But feel free to recommend anything you think we may have missed in the comments section&#8230; We love feedback!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new feature here at Explorations, every middle of the week we&#8217;ll provide you with quick hits of some of the most recent travel news, articles, anecdotes, tidbits and more that we think are blog-worthy.\u00a0 So, without further ado, let&#8217;s get to the good stuff&#8230; &#8212; CNN has a pretty informative article about your rights <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/in-the-news-links-edition\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,46,45],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-explorica-news","tag-milan","tag-rule-240","tag-sicily","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}