{"id":12181,"date":"2013-05-15T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12181"},"modified":"2013-05-15T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T09:00:12","slug":"book-review-orange-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/book-review-orange-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: A History of Orange County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/oldoc.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Roll back the clock in black &amp; white: Pictured is Disneyland entrance sign with the marquee listing a concert by Count Basie (died in 1984); and Huntington Beach&#8217;s 8.5 miles of beaches lined with oil derricks that clogged the landscape with smoke, goo, and rich, black crude that routinely collected on the clothes of swimmers and sunbathers.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn about the &#8220;OC,&#8221; it&#8217;s roots, evolution and fascination, pick up a copy of a book, &#8220;A History of Orange County &#8211; Twelve Decades of Extraordinary Change&#8221;,\u00a0by master communicator Mike Heywood. With his wonderful words, he&#8217;ll educate, while entertaining you, in his easy-to-read style. Heywood weaves the story of the OC, one of the country&#8217;s most intriguing and dynamic county&#8217;s, in context with significant national events. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/authors\/mike-heywood-orange-county.html\">Read the review<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roll back the clock in black &amp; white: Pictured is Disneyland entrance sign with the marquee listing a concert by Count Basie (died in 1984); and Huntington Beach&#8217;s 8.5 miles of beaches lined with oil derricks that clogged the landscape with smoke, goo, and rich, black crude that routinely collected on the clothes of swimmers [&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\/12181"}],"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=12181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}