{"id":137,"date":"2017-05-17T22:21:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T21:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2017-05-17T22:21:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T21:21:23","slug":"still-around-cebu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/17\/still-around-cebu\/","title":{"rendered":"Still around Cebu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As promised in my previous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/16\/welcome-cebu-city\/\">post<\/a> I am still in Cebu City.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines is a relatively new country. After being discovered by the Europeans a few hundred years ago it was under foreign rule for the most part. That means a lot of colonial influence. Fort San Pedro is a good example of this. If you are into history or military architecture then Fort San Pedro is a must-see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017-05-17-01-Fort-San-Pedro-description.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-imagelightbox=\"0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017-05-17-01-Fort-San-Pedro-description-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Entrance to the fort<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017-05-17-05-Fort-San-Pedro-entrance.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-imagelightbox=\"1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-142\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017-05-17-05-Fort-San-Pedro-entrance-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember Santo Ni\u00f1o? The image is present also here<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017-05-17-06-Fort-San-Pedro-St-Nino.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-imagelightbox=\"2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-143\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017-05-17-06-Fort-San-Pedro-St-Nino-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>View of the fort&#8217;s inner yard<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017-05-17-02-Fort-San-Pedro-yard.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-imagelightbox=\"3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017-05-17-02-Fort-San-Pedro-yard-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this is the fort&#8217;s wall<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017-05-17-03-Fort-San-Pedro-wall.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-imagelightbox=\"4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-140\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017-05-17-03-Fort-San-Pedro-wall-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is quite a lot of vegetation in the fort.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017-05-17-04-Fort-San-Pedro-flower.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-imagelightbox=\"5\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-141\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017-05-17-04-Fort-San-Pedro-flower-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a park right next to the fort. And as a proper park it needs to have a monument or two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017-05-17-07-Legazpi-monument.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-6\" data-imagelightbox=\"6\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-144\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017-05-17-07-Legazpi-monument-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the next post we will visit the oldest house in the Philippines and view the cityscape from one giant temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised in my previous post I am still in Cebu City. The Philippines is a relatively new country. After being discovered by the Europeans a few hundred years ago it was under foreign rule for the most part. That means a lot of colonial influence. Fort San Pedro is a good example of this. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/17\/still-around-cebu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Still around Cebu&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,29],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-photos","tag-cebu","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lostpaths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}