{"id":5972,"date":"2008-12-30T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=652"},"modified":"2008-12-30T00:00:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T08:00:16","slug":"i-love-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/i-love-la.html","title":{"rendered":"I Love L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the warmth of the desert (grandparents #1 and #2, aunts and uncles #1-4, cousins #1-3), the snow-covered trees and mountains (grandparents #3 and #4), and the spectacular views and empty roads of the central coast (grandparent #5), our whirlwind holiday roadtrip to all our relatives took us to &#8230; Los Angeles (grandparents #6 and #7, aunts\/uncles #1-2 again, cousin #1 again!).  Hello Laurel Canyon!  What a brutal reality check.  Seen below is our view of the scenic 101 (southbound) as we roll toward Hollywood.  I dread dealing with LA, sad and forsaken cesspool of traffic and smog and USC that it is.  Its only redeeming quality is, of course, the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/img\/08123035.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" ><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the warmth of the desert (grandparents #1 and #2, aunts and uncles #1-4, cousins #1-3), the snow-covered trees and mountains (grandparents #3 and #4), and the spectacular views and empty roads of the central coast (grandparent #5), our whirlwind holiday roadtrip to all our relatives took us to &#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-california"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}