{"id":4780,"date":"2009-03-10T08:12:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T16:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4780"},"modified":"2009-03-10T09:28:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T17:28:04","slug":"baja-doesnt-scare-these-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4780","title":{"rendered":"Baja Doesn&#8217;t Scare These Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/45464639jpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/45464639jpg.jpeg','popup','width=500,height=333,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/45464639-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"45464639.Jpg\" \/><\/a><em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> <strong>Ryan Griffith<\/strong>, 23, and friend <strong>Denis Mikhailenko<\/strong>, 24, aren&#8217;t letting the Mexico drug wars keep them from a nice night out in Baja Mexico, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-tr-rosarito9-2009mar09,0,951165,full.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. They know exactly what they&#8217;re going south for, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Food, clubs, girls, cheap liquor,&#8221; says Mikhailenko. &#8220;You can live like a king for way cheaper than you ever could in a place like San Diego. And you feel wanted here.&#8221; . . . After perhaps a dozen visits over the last two years, Mikhailenko says he and Griffith figure they&#8217;re safe as long as they treat everyone with respect, break no laws and don&#8217;t go down any unfamiliar streets. And the rest of their Friday evening?&#8221; Depends on where the night leads us,&#8221; says Mikhailenko, heading out to the street.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Turns out they drove down to Ensenada, got some food and &#8220;finished the night at a strip club.&#8221; Nice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-tr-rosarito9-2009mar09,0,951165,full.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s Ryan Griffith, 23, and friend Denis Mikhailenko, 24, aren&#8217;t letting the Mexico drug wars keep them from a nice night out in Baja Mexico, according to a story in the LA Times. They know exactly what they&#8217;re going south for, too. &#8220;Food, clubs, girls, cheap liquor,&#8221; says Mikhailenko. &#8220;You can live like a king [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4782,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780\/revisions\/4782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}