{"id":20195,"date":"2015-04-29T15:07:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T22:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20195"},"modified":"2015-04-30T13:02:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T20:02:48","slug":"california-missions-saved-by-the-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-missions-saved-by-the-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"California Missions: Saved by the Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/misses.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos clockwise bottom left: Mission San Luis Rey (Oceanside), Mission La Purisma (Lompoc), Mission San Juan Bautista, and Carmel Mission<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/missions\/directory.html\">California&#8217;s missions<\/a> began falling into disrepair most could have been easily lost forever.\u00a0Less than century after being\u00a0built they were starting see wear. The mission era from 1769 to 1833\u00a0ended when the Mexican government secularized the missions, \u00a0dividing their\u00a0lands \u00a0into grants\u00a0which transformed\u00a0them into ranchos. So how did the missions come back to life?\u00a0How were they &#8220;saved by the bell?&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/missions\/california-missions-saved.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos clockwise bottom left: Mission San Luis Rey (Oceanside), Mission La Purisma (Lompoc), Mission San Juan Bautista, and Carmel Mission When California&#8217;s missions began falling into disrepair most could have been easily lost forever.\u00a0Less than century after being\u00a0built they were starting see wear. The mission era from 1769 to 1833\u00a0ended when the Mexican government secularized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/20195"}],"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=20195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}