{"id":2183,"date":"2011-04-12T22:36:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T05:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2011-04-12T22:38:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T05:38:34","slug":"beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent the past 8 days in <em class=\"b\">San Diego<\/em> and head home in the morning.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s been lovely.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Fun with friends, good food, successful photo shoots, a little beach time, a major sinus infection, awe of the flower covered hillsides, the discovery of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitemadelinebakery.com\/\" target=\"resource_window\">amazing patisserie<\/a>&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Head cold notwithstanding, it&#8217;s been a really great trip.<\/p>\n<p>During my two &#8220;beach&#8221; days, I became fascinated by natural beauty in the sand.<\/p>\n<p>First up:\u00c2\u00a0 <em class=\"b\">Coronado Beach<\/em>&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 I just loved the <em class=\"b\">golden flecks<\/em> of iron pyrite that glistened in interesting patterns in the sand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/beachgold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2184\" title=\"beach gold\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/beachgold-525x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/beachgold-525x254.jpg 525w, https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/beachgold-255x123.jpg 255w, https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/beachgold.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beach #2 was in Camp Pendleton, <em class=\"b\">Oceanside<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 While intending to shoot photos of Kimo surfing, I got completely distracted by the <em class=\"b\">iridescent foam bubbles<\/em> on the beach&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/beachbub.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2185\" title=\"beach bubbles\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/beachbub-525x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/beachbub-525x366.jpg 525w, https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/beachbub-255x177.jpg 255w, https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/beachbub.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The waves were awesome as well &#8211; but for some reason it was the sand that held my attention this visit.   <\/p>\n<p><em class=\"b\">Is it just me, or are those bubbles and gold patterns really cool?<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>P.S.   I&#8217;m still intending to post my final Costa Rica installment&#8230;.   hopefully before I return for another visit in June!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent the past 8 days in San Diego and head home in the morning.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s been lovely.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Fun with friends, good food, successful photo shoots, a little beach time, a major sinus infection, awe of the flower covered hillsides, the discovery of an amazing patisserie&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Head cold notwithstanding, it&#8217;s been a really great trip. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/beach\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beach<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}