{"id":13487,"date":"2013-08-29T01:51:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T08:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13487"},"modified":"2013-08-29T01:52:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T08:52:57","slug":"hangout-seal-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/hangout-seal-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Hangout in Seal Beach and Have a Sunny Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/hangsb.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Slow down &#8212; when you hang around Seal Beach, California. This week seems especially relaxed. The beaches and pier aren&#8217;t crowded, the benches are available for lounging in the sunshine, and there&#8217;s room at The Hangout Restaurant &amp; Beach Bar to have a cocktail or dine.<\/p>\n<p>Seal Beach is a unique city in Orange County bordering Los Angeles County. With the first planned senior community of its type in the nation, gated Leisure World in Seal Beach contains a third of the city&#8217;s population. In addition, Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station greets military ships and vessels on a weekly basis. \u00a0 In a place known for relaxation, it&#8217;s kind of surprising that the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/transportation\/busiest-freeway.html\"> busiest freeway in the nation<\/a> intersects the city!<\/p>\n<p><strong>When you go to Seal Beach<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take time to stroll the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/piers\/seal-beach-pier.html\">Seal Beach Pier<\/a>\u00a0where you can fish at no charge<\/li>\n<li>Shop &amp; dine along the 3 blocks of Main Street<\/li>\n<li>Drive by Leisure World on Seal Beach Blvd. to see the 60s era gates and world globe<\/li>\n<li>Bring your electric car and park at one of the specially-equipped beach parking stalls<\/li>\n<li>Let your toddlers play in the gated &amp; enclosed beach playground with swings &amp; slides<\/li>\n<li>Windsurf or kite surf from Southern California&#8217;s only dedicated municipal launch port<\/li>\n<li>Surf Ray Bay<\/li>\n<li>Ride the San Gabriel Bike Path<\/li>\n<li>Say hi to Slick the Seal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slow down &#8212; when you hang around Seal Beach, California. This week seems especially relaxed. The beaches and pier aren&#8217;t crowded, the benches are available for lounging in the sunshine, and there&#8217;s room at The Hangout Restaurant &amp; Beach Bar to have a cocktail or dine. Seal Beach is a unique city in Orange County [&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\/13487"}],"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=13487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}