{"id":16122,"date":"2014-04-19T00:28:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T07:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16122"},"modified":"2014-04-19T00:28:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T07:28:23","slug":"oil-museum-being-created-in-orange-county-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/oil-museum-being-created-in-orange-county-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Museum Being Created in Orange County, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/brindle.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos: John A. Thomas in front of the first oil well in Huntington Beach (left) and Ron Brindle in front of a sign announcing the\u00a0new John Thomas Oil Museum to honor his friend (right)<\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>John A. Thomas, a\u00a0longtime California oilman and former Huntington Beach City Councilman,\u00a0 passed away on March 2, 2014 but he won&#8217;t be forgotten. Thomas&#8217; oil wells continue pumping and a close friend is creating a museum in his honor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was born to be an oilman,&#8221; said his pal, Ron Brindle, a landscape contractor, who&#8217;s creating &#8220;The John A. Thomas Oil Museum&#8221; \u00a0expected to be open in 2015\u00a0on his 19-acre property in Huntington Beach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When he was 3, his mom found him climbing his dad&#8217;s wooden oil derrick,&#8221; Brindle said. &#8220;He had oil in his blood..<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/huntington-beach-oil-museum.html\">.read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos: John A. Thomas in front of the first oil well in Huntington Beach (left) and Ron Brindle in front of a sign announcing the\u00a0new John Thomas Oil Museum to honor his friend (right) By C. MacDonald John A. Thomas, a\u00a0longtime California oilman and former Huntington Beach City Councilman,\u00a0 passed away on March 2, 2014 [&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\/16122"}],"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=16122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}