Besides the usual motivations to visit Costa Rica\u00e2\u20ac\u201dover a quarter of the country is protected in national parks, there are monkeys in the trees, iguanas underfoot, and good surfing waves on both coasts\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthere are two more reasons you should go right now.<\/p>\n
1. The Billabong ISA World Surfing Games are in Costa Rica this year. They start this weekend, running from August 1st through the 8th. The games are in Playa Hermosa, just south of the resort town of Jac\u00c3\u00b3, a two-hour drive from Costa Rica\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s international airport in San Jos\u00c3\u00a9…\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Besides the usual motivations to visit Costa Rica\u00e2\u20ac\u201dover a quarter of the country is protected in national parks, there are monkeys in the trees, iguanas underfoot, and good surfing waves on both coasts\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthere are two more reasons you should go right now. 1. The Billabong ISA World Surfing Games are in Costa Rica this year. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17670"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73178,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17670\/revisions\/73178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}