{"id":13627,"date":"2013-09-09T02:39:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T09:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13627"},"modified":"2013-09-09T02:39:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T09:39:43","slug":"welcome-to-planet-ocean-and-california-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/welcome-to-planet-ocean-and-california-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Planet Ocean and California Beaches!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bhbles.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our planet should be called &#8216;Ocean,&#8217; because more than 70% of the Earth is covered by water,&#8221; said a Southern California mayor at the 6th annual &#8220;Blessing of the Waves&#8221; ceremony next to Huntington Beach Pier yesterday. &#8220;More oxygen comes from the ocean than plants outside it on Earth. The ocean needs our blessings and we need the ocean.&#8221; \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/huntington-beach\/blessing-waves.html\">Read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our planet should be called &#8216;Ocean,&#8217; because more than 70% of the Earth is covered by water.<\/li>\n<li>More oxygen comes from the ocean than plants outside it on Earth.<\/li>\n<li>California has some of the best ocean water monitoring in the world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/directory.html\">California&#8217;s beaches<\/a> are nearly all free to see.<\/li>\n<li>There are approx. 1000 miles of beaches in California.<\/li>\n<li>There are 15 beach counties in California out of a total of 58 counties.<\/li>\n<li>Most of the state&#8217;s population resides near beaches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our planet should be called &#8216;Ocean,&#8217; because more than 70% of the Earth is covered by water,&#8221; said a Southern California mayor at the 6th annual &#8220;Blessing of the Waves&#8221; ceremony next to Huntington Beach Pier yesterday. &#8220;More oxygen comes from the ocean than plants outside it on Earth. The ocean needs our blessings and [&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\/13627"}],"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=13627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}