{"id":13427,"date":"2013-08-23T03:35:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T10:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13427"},"modified":"2013-08-23T03:35:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T10:35:03","slug":"lifeguards-more-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/lifeguards-more-than-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifeguards Do Much More Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/lblfg.jpg\" width=\"920\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach, CA&#8211;We see lifeguards in red swimsuits watching over people at beaches to ensure safety. But they do much, much more. Long Beach City Councilwoman and Historian Gerrie Schipske knows this and recently invited residents of her 5th District to go \u201cbehind-the-scenes\u201d at Mother\u2019s Beach (5715 Appian Way) and Lifeguard Headquarters (2100 E. Ocean) to see what \u201clifeguarding\u201d is all about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s part of a series I\u2019m doing to make the city more transparent, more understandable to the people who live here,&#8221; said the Long Beach native, who is also author of &#8220;Rosie the Riveter in Long Beach,&#8221; &#8220;Early Aviation in Long Beach&#8221; and &#8220;Early Long Beach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Learn how lifeguards (Marine Safety Officers)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/long-beach\/lifeguards.html\"> save lives in many ways&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald Long Beach, CA&#8211;We see lifeguards in red swimsuits watching over people at beaches to ensure safety. But they do much, much more. Long Beach City Councilwoman and Historian Gerrie Schipske knows this and recently invited residents of her 5th District to go \u201cbehind-the-scenes\u201d at Mother\u2019s Beach (5715 Appian Way) and Lifeguard Headquarters [&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\/13427"}],"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=13427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}