{"id":15535,"date":"2014-02-25T02:34:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T10:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15535"},"modified":"2014-02-25T02:42:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T10:42:43","slug":"worlds-best-beaches-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/worlds-best-beaches-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Best Beaches in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/vbe.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As thoughts turn to California&#8217;s endless summers with the cool Hawaiian breezes blowing our direction, every publication wants to get in on the action of picking the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/worlds-best-beaches.html\"><strong>World&#8217;s Best Beaches<\/strong><\/a>. California beaches are generally overlooked with a few exceptions such as Venice Beach (in photos.) \u00a0Why is Venice Beach one of the best in the world, according to\u00a0CNN, Travel Channel and Travel + Leisure? \u00a0Just take a look!<\/p>\n<p>When travel and news sources publish &#8220;best beaches lists&#8221; the choices often come down to a writer&#8217;s favorites. With little or no scientific rigor applied to the selection process, posted comments offer another perspective:<br \/>\n&#8220;Venice Beach, California&#8230;are you kidding me?! That beach sucks. If you&#8217;re not stepping on a hypodermic needle you&#8217;re stepping in dog poop. So many better beaches in California&#8230;and all the good one&#8217;s are outside of LA County.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0JT<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>World&#8217;s Best Beaches:<\/strong> \u00a0Venice Beach (CNN, Travel Channel, Travel + Leisure); \u00a0San Diego&#8217;s La Jolla (FODOR); Big Sur&#8217;s Pfeiffer Beach (Travel + Leisure)<\/li>\n<li><strong>No California Beaches in World&#8217;s Best:<\/strong>\u00a0Conde Nast Traveler,\u00a0Lonely Planet, National Geographic, TripAdvisor, US News &amp; World Report<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As thoughts turn to California&#8217;s endless summers with the cool Hawaiian breezes blowing our direction, every publication wants to get in on the action of picking the World&#8217;s Best Beaches. California beaches are generally overlooked with a few exceptions such as Venice Beach (in photos.) \u00a0Why is Venice Beach one of the best in the [&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\/15535"}],"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=15535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}