{"id":21529,"date":"2015-11-08T01:32:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T09:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21529"},"modified":"2015-11-08T01:32:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T09:32:30","slug":"summerland-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/summerland-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"First Offshore Oil Production in Western Hemisphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/smlandb.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SUMMERLAND, CALIF. &#8212; Each time you make a pit stop at Lookout Park off I-101 south of Santa Barbara\u00a0you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/summerland.html\">learn something new<\/a>. In addition to the beautiful, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/dogs.html\">dog-friendly beach<\/a>,\u00a0soda machines, picnic tables with BBQ grills, kids playground and public restrooms, there are signs informing visitors about the present &amp; past.\u00a0One plaque even commemorates\u00a0the\u00a0first offshore oil production in the Western Hemisphere!<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few tidbits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Summerland oil field initially produced from onshore oil wells but beginning in 1896 production was extended off shore.<\/li>\n<li>22 oil companies operated oil wells from 12 wharves in\u00a01899.<\/li>\n<li>Posted signs warn (in English and Spanish) of possible short-term health threats from contact with oil on the beach, in the water or\u00a0air.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUMMERLAND, CALIF. &#8212; Each time you make a pit stop at Lookout Park off I-101 south of Santa Barbara\u00a0you learn something new. In addition to the beautiful, dog-friendly beach,\u00a0soda machines, picnic tables with BBQ grills, kids playground and public restrooms, there are signs informing visitors about the present &amp; past.\u00a0One plaque even commemorates\u00a0the\u00a0first offshore oil [&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\/21529"}],"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=21529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}