{"id":20655,"date":"2015-07-06T00:38:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T07:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20655"},"modified":"2015-07-06T00:38:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T07:38:14","slug":"laguna-beach-festival-pursues-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/laguna-beach-festival-pursues-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Laguna Beach Festival Pursues Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/pothem.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos:\u00a0Preparation for a starring role in &#8220;The Swing&#8221; an Oil by French artist J.H. Fragonard \u00a0c. 1767<\/p>\n<p>LAGUNA BEACH, CALIF. &#8212; The Pursuit of Happiness is the theme of the 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/laguna-beach-pageant-masters.html\">Pageant of the Masters<\/a> in Laguna Canyon where people are happy just being in the spectacular\u00a0pageant bowl. Filled with the\u00a0scent of\u00a0eucalyptus\u00a0in the\u00a0cool, night air, the show\u00a0opens at 8:30 each evening\u00a0between July 8 and August 31, 2015, delivering\u00a0joy to those willing to pay between $15 and $150 for several hours of entertainment. More than 40\u00a0masterpiece art\u00a0works are staged in 3-D with actors blending into the paintings\u00a0so that you can hardly tell\u00a0there\u00a0are real people\u00a0in the scenes. \u00a0Among the featured art in the 83rd season are fun works by Norman Rockwell, Currier &amp; Ives &#8220;Season of Life&#8221; series, Winslow Homer, Cyrus Dallin\u00a0and paintings &amp; sculptures from approx. 27 artists, including the annual grand finale, &#8220;The Last Supper&#8221; by Italian master, Leonardo da Vinci.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos:\u00a0Preparation for a starring role in &#8220;The Swing&#8221; an Oil by French artist J.H. Fragonard \u00a0c. 1767 LAGUNA BEACH, CALIF. &#8212; The Pursuit of Happiness is the theme of the 2015 Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Canyon where people are happy just being in the spectacular\u00a0pageant bowl. Filled with the\u00a0scent of\u00a0eucalyptus\u00a0in the\u00a0cool, night air, [&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\/20655"}],"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=20655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}