{"id":13312,"date":"2013-08-13T03:06:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T10:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13312"},"modified":"2013-08-13T03:09:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T10:09:10","slug":"sea-glassing-the-beach-for-hidden-gems-among-the-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/sea-glassing-the-beach-for-hidden-gems-among-the-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea-glassing the Beach to Uncover Hidden Gems Among the Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/eaglass.jpg\" width=\"920\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to imagine that glass bottles could one day become precious gems worn around your neck, on your wrist, or adorning a finger, no less.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Santa Cruz Sea Glass Festival Nov. 2 &amp; 3, 2013 at Cocoanut Grove Boardwalk invites sea glass collectors, buyers, sellers and the public to admire sea glass products and try them on for size.<\/p>\n<p>Rarer than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-great-glass-pumpkin-patches-are-the-craze\/\">glass pumpkin patches<\/a>, sea glass conferences, conventions and festivals are held in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/cayucos-seaglass-festival.html\">Cayucos<\/a>, Fort Bragg and Santa Cruz annually. If you think that collecting sea glass looks like child&#8217;s play, \u00a0you&#8217;ll come home with a different appreciation of what goes into harvesting, smoothing and designing glass objects that people love to buy! It&#8217;s hard work but has its rewards&#8211;you get to spend hours hanging out at beaches!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to imagine that glass bottles could one day become precious gems worn around your neck, on your wrist, or adorning a finger, no less. The annual Santa Cruz Sea Glass Festival Nov. 2 &amp; 3, 2013 at Cocoanut Grove Boardwalk invites sea glass collectors, buyers, sellers and the public to admire sea glass [&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\/13312"}],"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=13312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}