{"id":21346,"date":"2015-10-13T03:10:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T10:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21346"},"modified":"2015-10-13T03:10:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T10:10:09","slug":"saving-california-piers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/saving-california-piers\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving California&#8217;s Piers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/yespier.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a million dollar view of the Pacific, just head to a pier as seen in pictures taken yesterday along the Pacific Coast. Beyond the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/directory.html\"> famed California beaches<\/a> that attract over 50 million visitors each year (more than the entire population of the state,) \u00a0is what seems to be an eternity of ocean waves and spectacular sunsets.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/piers\/directory.html\">Piers in California<\/a> are the one place that everybody can get that prized picture, catch a fish for free,\u00a0and maybe grab a bite to eat. There are over 30 public piers along the coast from the southernmost Imperial Beach Pier to the northern redwood coast&#8217;s Del Norte Pier. With more than 1,000 miles \u00a0of beaches and 50+ major beach destinations in the state, it seems surprising that there aren&#8217;t more piers. When you examine what it takes to own one, then the answer is clear&#8211;piers cost a lot of money to build and maintain!\u00a0 It&#8217;s easy to love wharfs &amp; piers and all they represent, but you can&#8217;t take them for granted. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/piers\/saving-california-piers.html\">Read on&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a million dollar view of the Pacific, just head to a pier as seen in pictures taken yesterday along the Pacific Coast. Beyond the famed California beaches that attract over 50 million visitors each year (more than the entire population of the state,) \u00a0is what seems to be an eternity of [&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\/21346"}],"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=21346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}