{"id":20987,"date":"2015-08-23T02:03:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T09:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20987"},"modified":"2015-08-23T02:03:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T09:03:26","slug":"beach-blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/beach-blast-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Blast from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bathbea.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Among the most popular events at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/seal-beach\/centennial-bbq.html\">Seal Beach&#8217;s Beach BBQ Centennial Party<\/a> yesterday was the bathing suit line up in which 33 participants modeled outfits\u00a0that recreated styles of the past. On-lookers especially got a kick out of seeing Mayor Ellery Deaton strike a pose. \u00a0Seth Eaker and Michael Dobkins of the Seal Beach 100 Centennial Committee orchestrated a photo shoot for a memento panoramic picture similar to one taken at the beach 100 years ago. \u00a0Other fun activities at the beach party enjoyed just as much today as 100 years past: horseshoes, sand castle\u00a0building, surfing, swimming and a Beach BBQ with free hot dogs.<\/p>\n<p>When you ask Seal Beach residents why they don&#8217;t have more hotels, high-rise buildings and chain restaurants and stores along their picturesque Main Street and quaint downtown many frown and say they want to keep their city old-fashioned. And thanks to that, visitors can still park free in most spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the most popular events at the Seal Beach&#8217;s Beach BBQ Centennial Party yesterday was the bathing suit line up in which 33 participants modeled outfits\u00a0that recreated styles of the past. On-lookers especially got a kick out of seeing Mayor Ellery Deaton strike a pose. \u00a0Seth Eaker and Michael Dobkins of the Seal Beach 100 [&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\/20987"}],"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=20987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}