{"id":446,"date":"2010-10-04T06:32:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T11:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/?p=446"},"modified":"2010-10-03T06:33:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T11:33:02","slug":"are-guidebooks-facing-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/are-guidebooks-facing-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"Are guidebooks facing extinction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter tips, up-to-the minute websites and customized apps bursting  with locals&#8217; advice are all changing the way we travel. But does it mean  the end of the guidebooks?<\/p>\n<p>What once required hours of rifling through guidebooks, or Googling into  the provincial nooks of the internet, is now attainable in an instant.  And increasingly we don&#8217;t need to find  the information. It can find us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/travel\/2010\/oct\/03\/guide-books-web-travel?CMP=twt_gu\" target=\"_blank\">Travel writer Benji Lanyado takes a look at the almost obsolete paper publishing of travel.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter tips, up-to-the minute websites and customized apps bursting with locals&#8217; advice are all changing the way we travel. But does it mean the end of the guidebooks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[342,340,341,11,338,339,343],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-barrons","tag-guidebook","tag-lonely-planet","tag-travel","tag-travel-guide-books","tag-travel-information","tag-travel-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespicytexan.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}