{"id":37353,"date":"2014-07-17T01:08:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T05:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/?p=37353"},"modified":"2020-07-17T02:00:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T06:00:58","slug":"crime-and-safety-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/blog\/crime-and-safety-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime and safety report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Crime and Safety Report<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Crime is a significant concern in urban areas of the Philippines. Typical criminal acts include pick-pocketing, confidence schemes, acquaintance scams, and, in some cases, credit card fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic is dense, chaotic, and unpredictable. The road system is crowded, and drivers are undisciplined. Driving off the national highways and paved roads is particularly dangerous, especially at night, and should be avoided.<\/p>\n<p>Due to its geographic location, the Philippines is particularly vulnerable to typhoons, floods, earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. These disasters can easily set back hard won development and economic gains and can cause disruptions in communication and transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osac.gov\/pages\/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=13574\">https:\/\/www.osac.gov\/pages\/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=13574<\/a><\/p>\n<p>a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime and Safety Report &nbsp; Crime is a significant concern in urban areas of the Philippines. Typical criminal acts include pick-pocketing, confidence schemes, acquaintance scams, and, in some cases, credit card fraud. Traffic is dense, chaotic, and unpredictable. The road system is crowded, and drivers are undisciplined. Driving off the national highways and paved roads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":37361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[5339,7370],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Visa-Options-For-Expats-In-The-Philippines.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37367,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37353\/revisions\/37367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37353"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=37353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}