{"id":23356,"date":"2016-10-21T22:39:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T05:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23356"},"modified":"2016-10-21T22:39:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T05:39:28","slug":"fantastic-california-cemeteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/fantastic-california-cemeteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic California Cemeteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cemete.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do you know it&#8217;s possible to\u00a0hit four fantastic Southern California cemeteries in a day\u00a0to see intriguing things where the rich, famous and forgotten are buried?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Forest Lawn Memorial Park \u2014 Hollywood Hills (top photo) includes the largest historical mosaic in the United States standing 162-foot\u00a0long and 28-foot\u00a0high. Birth of Liberty is composed of\u00a010\u00a0million pieces of Venetian glass.<\/li>\n<li>Hollywood Forever Cemetery (bottom photos) behind Paramount Studios is\u00a0the final resting place for\u00a0Johnny Ramone (legendary guitarist for the Ramones), Carl Alfalfa Switzer (Little Rascals), Mickey Rooney, Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Peter Lorre, Marian Davies, Bugsy Segal and many more.<\/li>\n<li>Forest Lawn Memorial Park \u2014 Glendale is the only\u00a0place in the world where Michelangelo&#8217;s greatest statuary works can be seen together in one location.\u00a0It&#8217;s the\u00a0final resting place for Michael Jackson, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and dozens of celebrities.<\/li>\n<li>Evergreen Cemetery (1877) is the oldest nondenominational cementery in Los Angeles. Each year 1,500 of the city&#8217;s homeless or unidentified persons are cremated and buried in a single grave, not far from\u00a0tombstones\u00a0of well known developers, oil tycoons and land owners such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/history\/long-beach-rancho-losalamitos-history.html\">Jotham Bixby <\/a>(Long Beach).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know it&#8217;s possible to\u00a0hit four fantastic Southern California cemeteries in a day\u00a0to see intriguing things where the rich, famous and forgotten are buried? Forest Lawn Memorial Park \u2014 Hollywood Hills (top photo) includes the largest historical mosaic in the United States standing 162-foot\u00a0long and 28-foot\u00a0high. Birth of Liberty is composed of\u00a010\u00a0million pieces 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\/23356"}],"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=23356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}