{"id":11795,"date":"2013-04-16T02:31:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T09:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=11795"},"modified":"2013-04-16T02:31:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T09:31:43","slug":"earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day Inspired by Oil Disaster in Santa Barbara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sbearth.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured is \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/earthday\/santa-barbara.html\">Santa Barbara Earth Day<\/a>\u00a0celebration held annually for more than 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s possibly no place on Earth that celebrates Earth Day in such a heartfelt manner as Santa Barbara, Calif. Why? Earth Day was \u00a0born out of an ecological disaster that hit the region hard. In 1970 Senator Gaylord Nelson visited the scenic Central Coast beach city after a major oil spill along the Santa Barbara County coast in 1969. Outraged by what he saw, he passed a bill designating April 22 as a national day to celebrate the earth. Each year Santa Barbara hosts\u00a0one of the biggest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/earthday\/california-earth-day.html\">Earth Day celebrations in Californi<\/a>a and the nation in remembrance of the disaster, and in an effort to make their piece of the coast (and world) better. \u00a0Held on April 20-21, 2013, the event includes car shows, energy displays, bands, arts &amp; crafts for kids, vendor booths, food, and a dinner gala to launch the festivities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured is \u00a0Santa Barbara Earth Day\u00a0celebration held annually for more than 40 years. There&#8217;s possibly no place on Earth that celebrates Earth Day in such a heartfelt manner as Santa Barbara, Calif. Why? Earth Day was \u00a0born out of an ecological disaster that hit the region hard. In 1970 Senator Gaylord Nelson visited the scenic [&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\/11795"}],"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=11795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}