{"id":12628,"date":"2006-12-04T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewayoffreedom.com\/kuta-lombokas-sala-kuta-bali-sala\/"},"modified":"2017-09-13T10:26:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T07:26:46","slug":"kuta-lombokas-sala-kuta-bali-sala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewayoffreedom.com\/en\/kuta-lombokas-sala-kuta-bali-sala\/","title":{"rendered":"KUTA (LOMBOK ISLAND) \u2013 KUTA (BALI ISLAND)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s obvious, they are asking for money; however, we don\u2019t have time to play games because our ferry is leaving in twenty minutes. I offer 5, 000 rupees ($5), yet it\u2019s not enough, and we are getting conoyed to the nearest cop-shop. We actually suspect this is the game they always play with foreigners, so we decide to stay cool and see what happens. Next amount they call is $100 for both bikes, and I reply that we\u2019ve got nowhere to hurry, so we can also wait for Monday. Maximum I can give is $20 for each. Bargaining begins, and in the end we stop at $50. I am sure that if we didn\u2019t have to rush for the ferry, we\u2019d make the amount much smaller. This is the third time we have to pay to the police: first time we did in Russia, second time in Thailand, yet for a violation, and now this here, cheeky racket. Bali is still celebrating, and the streets are full of people dressed in bright clothes for the ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s obvious, they are asking for money; however, we don\u2019t have time to play games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australija-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewayoffreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewayoffreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewayoffreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewayoffreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewayoffreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewayoffreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewayoffreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewayoffreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewayoffreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewayoffreedom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}