{"id":10862,"date":"2013-02-06T03:36:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T11:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=10862"},"modified":"2013-02-06T03:36:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T11:36:41","slug":"three-california-surfing-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/three-california-surfing-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Three California Surfing Museums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/surfmusum.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Surfing museums left to right: Oceanside- California Surfing Museum; Santa Cruz Surfing Museum in a light house; Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t need beach museums when the beach beckons us to enjoy a live interaction. So who needs surfing museums located in beach destinations where the surf is fine and waves call out for us to ride them?\u00a0 It turns out we all need surfing museums. They are part of the California allure that includes the promise of sunshine, sandy beaches, and\u00a0 cutting edge ocean-oriented fashion. The surfing industry and related apparel and products are BIG business in California, and it turns out that surfing museums promote business, California beach lifestyle and culture.\u00a0 European and international surfers are drawn to California&#8217;s surf museums and see them as a way to say hello or connect with other surfers, get local information, and find out what&#8217;s happening. Tourists looking for a way to kill some time might enjoy the oddities and extremes of the sport when visiting a museum and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/women-on-waves-at-california-surf-museum-oceanside\/\">seeing a surfboard belonging to Bethany Hamilton<\/a>. She\u00a0 lost her arm to a shark bite while surfing, and what remains of her board shows the giant teeth impressions of the shark\u00a0 that bit her.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/california-surfing-museums.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfing museums left to right: Oceanside- California Surfing Museum; Santa Cruz Surfing Museum in a light house; Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum. We don&#8217;t need beach museums when the beach beckons us to enjoy a live interaction. So who needs surfing museums located in beach destinations where the surf is fine and waves call out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}