{"id":4173,"date":"2012-02-05T12:52:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T20:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=4173"},"modified":"2012-02-05T12:52:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T20:52:54","slug":"slo-stream-and-babbling-brook-in-the-middle-of-san-luis-obispo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/slo-stream-and-babbling-brook-in-the-middle-of-san-luis-obispo\/","title":{"rendered":"SLO Stream and Babbling Brook in the Middle of San Luis Obispo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sloriv.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The San Luis Obispo Creek that runs through the center of\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/san-luis-obispo.html\">San Luis Obispo<\/a> downtown shopping area, Mission Plaza, creates incredible charm. But the gentle stream hasn&#8217;t always been so tame and friendly, as there have been times in history when the downtown streets flooded as the banks overflowed.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1968, a two block area of downtown has become the physical, cultural, and spiritual heart of the city.\u00a0 The Central Coast city&#8217;s urban planners figured out a way to integrate the historic <!--StyleSheet Link--><!--StyleSheet Link--><!--StyleSheet Link-->Mission San Luis Obispo De Tolosa near the banks of San Luis Obispo Creek with downtown shops and stores, to preserve the city&#8217;s charm while creating a vibrant gathering spot for dining, concerts, and tourists connecting with California&#8217;s missions.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nearly always something going on around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/shopping\/san-luis-obispo-mission-plaza.html\">Mission Plaza<\/a>, and three nearby museum within the district make for an entire day of entertainment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Luis Obispo Creek that runs through the center of\u00a0 San Luis Obispo downtown shopping area, Mission Plaza, creates incredible charm. But the gentle stream hasn&#8217;t always been so tame and friendly, as there have been times in history when the downtown streets flooded as the banks overflowed. Since 1968, a two block area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173"}],"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=4173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}