{"id":320,"date":"2010-01-20T16:25:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T20:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2010-01-20T16:25:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T20:25:56","slug":"hurray-for-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Hurray for LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah had a couple of days off for Lee-Jackson Day and Martin Luther King Day, and we needed to get away.\u00c2\u00a0 We both read <em>The Big Sleep<\/em>, stayed in a fabulous old downtown hotel for way cheap, and relied entirely on public transport, except for the bikes we rented in Santa Monica.\u00c2\u00a0 What a great town LA is, in its sprawling California way.\u00c2\u00a0 We went to Hollywood, Santa Monica, Venice, Griffith Park, MOCA, La Brea tar pits, the market\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe whole tourist experience.\u00c2\u00a0 Public transport was cheap, plentiful and efficient.\u00c2\u00a0 We found Californians incredibly friendly and helpful.\u00c2\u00a0 We had one spectacular crazy on a busride home.\u00c2\u00a0 Truly eloquent.\u00c2\u00a0 In Venice we resisted the Kush Doctors being advertised but rode with a herd of pub crawling med students who emanated a manic contact high of their own.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m contemplating putting them on the same bus with the crazy in some fictional busride.\u00c2\u00a0 The weather was luxuriously warm and exquisite until the very end when we were rained on a little, but we found great shelter in Birds on Franklin Avenue, a terrific place.\u00c2\u00a0 The bookstore down the way had a 1st edition hardback of <em>Circuit of Heaven<\/em> I signed for them.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t have too many of those myself, but the price was too high for me.\u00c2\u00a0 Some pictures:\u00c2\u00a0 Me with a Short-faced bear at La Brea, the Griffith Observatory and LA from Griffith Park, and the Santa Monica Pier.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dennisdanvers.com\/pictures\/flat-faced%20bear.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dennisdanvers.com\/pictures\/Griffith%20Obs.%20LA.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dennisdanvers.com\/pictures\/santa%20monica%20pier.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah had a couple of days off for Lee-Jackson Day and Martin Luther King Day, and we needed to get away.\u00c2\u00a0 We both read The Big Sleep, stayed in a fabulous old downtown hotel for way cheap, and relied entirely &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=320\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}