{"id":13873,"date":"2013-10-02T03:01:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T10:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13873"},"modified":"2013-10-02T03:01:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T10:01:15","slug":"exciting-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/exciting-oakland\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting Oakland Is Getting Its Due!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/jlond.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>Oakland is becoming one of the &#8220;happeningist&#8221; cities in America. The New York Times calls it, &#8220;The #5 Top Destination to Visit in the World.&#8221; Forbes says the city east of San Francisco is one of the Coolest Cities in the Country.<\/p>\n<p>This impressive, and increasingly recognized city is getting its plaudits for a variety of reasons, including everywhere you look, there are exciting and diverse things to do. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/attractions\/oakland.html\">Read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Oakland you can:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ride horses in the Oakland Hills<\/li>\n<li>Fly through the air at the Trapeze Arts circus school<\/li>\n<li>Learn to juggle in the Kinetic Arts Center<\/li>\n<li>Be charmed by a mighty Wurlitzer organ before Saturday films at Grand Lake Theatre<\/li>\n<li>Mingle with Miss Muffet at Children&#8217;s Fairyland<\/li>\n<li>Take a cruise on the USS Potomac (President Franklin D. Roosevelt&#8217;s 165-foot &#8220;floating White House&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Munch on Japanese food while listening to legends like Natalie Cole at Yoshi&#8217;s jazz and music club<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald Oakland is becoming one of the &#8220;happeningist&#8221; cities in America. The New York Times calls it, &#8220;The #5 Top Destination to Visit in the World.&#8221; Forbes says the city east of San Francisco is one of the Coolest Cities in the Country. This impressive, and increasingly recognized city is getting its plaudits [&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\/13873"}],"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=13873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}