{"id":23880,"date":"2017-02-03T15:32:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T23:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23880"},"modified":"2017-02-03T15:32:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T23:32:34","slug":"for-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/for-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Golfing for the Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/justimber.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the world&#8217;s most famous golf tournaments&#8211;The AT&amp;T Pebble Beach&#8211;takes place Feb. 6-12, 2017. This tourney attracts the top golfers, celebrities such as Justin Timberlake (pictured,) masses of spectators and worldwide TV coverage. It&#8217;s truly a California phenom and has a statewide history. Eighty years ago, Bing Crosby started the event at the Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club in San Diego County.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/small\/himfest1.jpg\" alt=\"imgs\" width=\"175\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was playing golf with my dad near Pebble Beach at the Pacific Grove Golf Links, and was warned with &#8220;Fore, &#8221; which\u00a0means to duck because a wayward golf ball is headed your way. However, &#8220;Fore&#8221; also is used on and off the golf course as a warning &#8220;to dive for cover, you&#8217;re under attack.&#8221; I ducked. But instead of being hit by a golf ball, I was pounced upon by four blackbirds&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/sports\/golf\/golfing-birds.html\">read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s most famous golf tournaments&#8211;The AT&amp;T Pebble Beach&#8211;takes place Feb. 6-12, 2017. This tourney attracts the top golfers, celebrities such as Justin Timberlake (pictured,) masses of spectators and worldwide TV coverage. It&#8217;s truly a California phenom and has a statewide history. Eighty years ago, Bing Crosby started the event at the Rancho [&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\/23880"}],"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=23880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}