{"id":12688,"date":"2013-06-23T04:11:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T11:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12688"},"modified":"2013-06-23T11:08:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T18:08:30","slug":"you-paid-15-to-park-and-never-went-in-the-getty-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/you-paid-15-to-park-and-never-went-in-the-getty-villa\/","title":{"rendered":"You Paid $15 to Park and Never Went in the Getty Villa?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/getext.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who would drive over an hour and pay $15 to park at the fabulous Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, then spend their entire outing in the gardens, never venturing into the museum to see the antiquities collections? That&#8217;s crazy! \u00a0Yet it happens to me a lot when I go places with other people. Here&#8217;s the scenario: We arrive at the Getty Villa museum around noon, and the person I&#8217;m traveling with HAS TO eat now. Not later, now. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-museum-dining-where-views-and-food-steal-the-show\/\">outdoor restaurant<\/a> is the obvious choice so we spend about 45 (long) minutes making sure the companion is fed and ready to \u00a0amp it up a little. Wandering around the elegant outdoor gardens with fountains spitting, spilling and pouring, my friend(s) dawdle<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/malibu-getty.html\"> &#8230;read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would drive over an hour and pay $15 to park at the fabulous Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, then spend their entire outing in the gardens, never venturing into the museum to see the antiquities collections? That&#8217;s crazy! \u00a0Yet it happens to me a lot when I go places with other people. Here&#8217;s the [&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\/12688"}],"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=12688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}