{"id":21550,"date":"2015-11-12T00:25:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T08:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21550"},"modified":"2015-11-12T00:25:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T08:25:14","slug":"great-places-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/great-places-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Places in America 2015: Balboa Park and Olvera Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/calgrepam.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/attractions\/los-angeles-olvera-street.html\">Olvera Street<\/a> in Los Angeles was selected as one of five Great Streets in America 2015; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/parks\/san-diego-balboa-park.html\">Balboa Park in San Diego<\/a> was chosen as one of six Great Public Spaces in America 2015, recently announced by Washington D.C. based\u00a0 American Planning Association.\u00a0 California did not rank in Great Neighborhoods category this year but has done so in past years. In nine years that the program has\u00a0existed\u00a0 California has received more awards than any state!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Great Places in America\u00a02007-2015, California Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Berkeley &#8211; Northbrae<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles: Echo Park; Grand Park; Olvera Street<\/li>\n<li>Oakland &#8211; Uptown<\/li>\n<li>Pasadena &#8211; Bungalow Heaven<\/li>\n<li>Riverside &#8211; Fairmount Park<\/li>\n<li>San Diego: Balboa Park; 5th Avenue; Hillcrest<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco: Chinatown; Ferry Building; North Beach<\/li>\n<li>Santa Barbara &#8211; State Street<\/li>\n<li>Santa Monica Beach<\/li>\n<li>Sacramento &#8211; Cesar Chavez Park and Plaza<\/li>\n<li>West Hollywood &#8211; Santa Monica Boulevard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olvera Street in Los Angeles was selected as one of five Great Streets in America 2015; and Balboa Park in San Diego was chosen as one of six Great Public Spaces in America 2015, recently announced by Washington D.C. based\u00a0 American Planning Association.\u00a0 California did not rank in Great Neighborhoods category this year but has [&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\/21550"}],"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=21550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}