{"id":23876,"date":"2017-02-02T14:11:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T22:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23876"},"modified":"2017-02-02T14:11:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T22:11:44","slug":"character-tim-shepard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/character-tim-shepard\/","title":{"rendered":"A Real California Character&#8211;Sailing and Tennis With Tim Shepard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/small\/blanks.jpg\" alt=\"imgs\" width=\"234\" height=\"62\" \/><br \/>\nBy C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>My friend, the late great Tim Shepard, was a real character. He was the son of Frances P. Shepard, &#8220;the father of marine geology,&#8221; known for his research, writing and teaching at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. The current Aquarium of the Pacific&#8217;s President and CEO, Dr. Jerry Schubel, was one of Frances&#8217; students.<\/p>\n<p>Tim was the grandson of T.H. Shepard, the subject of a fantastic and hilarious book he wrote, &#8220;Peaches Point&#8221; (Timothy Shepard, Crowell, 1976)&#8211;the sailing, tennis and car racing world of his amazing grandpa and clan. Tim definitely was a character in his own right, a pal of America&#8217;s Cup champion Dennis Conner and CBS Evening News Anchor Walter Cronkite. I always thought it was funny that Tim, who was a collegiate champion wrestler at Harvard, graduated with an English degree, yet always asked me to how to spell words. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/tim-shepard.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald My friend, the late great Tim Shepard, was a real character. He was the son of Frances P. Shepard, &#8220;the father of marine geology,&#8221; known for his research, writing and teaching at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. The current Aquarium of the Pacific&#8217;s President and CEO, Dr. Jerry Schubel, was [&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\/23876"}],"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=23876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}