{"id":52252,"date":"2011-07-24T08:17:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T15:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=52252"},"modified":"2011-07-24T08:17:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T15:17:35","slug":"surfing-and-%e2%80%98roughing-it%e2%80%99-on-southern-california-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=52252","title":{"rendered":"Surfing and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcRoughing It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on Southern California Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THE freeway was dark. Wisps of sea mist obscured the moon. At 2 a.m. there wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t another car on Highway 101, the southern extension of the Pacific Coast Highway that traces the edge of the continent from Orange County in California almost to the Oregon border. On the left side of the road as I drove south, miles of tract housing reached into the hills. Somewhere on the right, between the guardrail and the great void of the Pacific, was the entrance to the San Elijo campground.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d already missed the turn three times. The lights on my 1977 Volkswagen Westfalia camper van\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/24\/travel\/a-surfers-tour-of-california-beaches.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE freeway was dark. Wisps of sea mist obscured the moon. At 2 a.m. there wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t another car on Highway 101, the southern extension of the Pacific Coast Highway that traces the edge of the continent from Orange County in California almost to the Oregon border. On the left side of the road as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52254,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52252\/revisions\/52254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}