{"id":505,"date":"2016-08-08T07:17:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T07:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2016-08-16T07:46:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T07:46:08","slug":"byron-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"Byron Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been some 35 years since I last visited this iconic town located in the most eastern part of Australia. At that time it was pristine and now it looks a lot less than that. While nature dealt it a great hand with beaches and landscape, the people living in the town seem to be oblivious to just how tourists vs infrastructure are a complete mismatch. The roads are now all goat tracks and it looks very much like a town left to deteriorate without any planning for growth. However I was amused by the council literally putting parking meters everywhere including the beaches without anything to show for it. They have lived off a reputation that cashes in on an endless supply of millennials due to music and arts community festivals without too much thought on anything other than that. I&#8217;m sure the locals would say otherwise but to an outsider it looks like a tired old town that lost it&#8217;s way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/byron4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/byron4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"byron4\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-506\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/byron3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/byron3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"byron3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-508\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/byron5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/byron5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"byron5\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-509\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been some 35 years since I last visited this iconic town located in the most eastern part of Australia. At that time it was pristine and now it looks a lot less than that. While nature dealt it a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/?p=505\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozvoyager.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}