{"id":3067,"date":"2016-06-07T23:06:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T03:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2016-07-05T23:49:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T03:49:22","slug":"las-student-wrote-for-the-tab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/2016\/06\/07\/las-student-wrote-for-the-tab\/","title":{"rendered":"LAS Student Karla Leon Published in The Tab"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h4>Marina Menegazzo and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Coni were visiting Ecuador when they were found killed. The government, the police and the media criticised them for travelling alone<\/h4>\n<p>I travel alone. I\u2019ve been travelling alone since I was 16. Most of the time I would be with my friends. I am a girl and I travel alone, and that puts me in danger. The danger of getting robbed. The danger of getting raped. The danger of getting killed.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0February, Marina Menegazzo and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Coni were backpacking through South America. They started their journey in Argentina and had already visited a couple of countries in the continent. While in Ecuador, they decided to adventure themselves to Monta\u00f1ita, a cool and hipster beach full of surfers and musicians. They stayed in Monta\u00f1ita 11 days until they were found violently murdered. As soon as the news came out, the recurring questions on social media were: why were they\u00a0traveling\u00a0alone? Were they drinking? What were they wearing? Reading about these girls, all I could think about was, \u201cthis could have been me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/thetab.com\/us\/2016\/06\/02\/travel-alone-10178\" target=\"_blank\">Read more here!<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marina Menegazzo and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Coni were visiting Ecuador when they were found killed. The government, the police and the media criticised them for travelling alone I travel alone. I\u2019ve been travelling alone since I was 16. Most of the time I would be with my friends. I am a girl and I travel alone, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10904,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[902],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/las\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}