{"id":1569,"date":"2008-02-22T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2008-02-22T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T02:01:00","slug":"nyt-classic-beach-but-much-more-in-santa-monica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/nyt-classic-beach-but-much-more-in-santa-monica\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Classic Beach, but Much More in Santa Monica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT had a <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/22\/travel\/escapes\/22american.html?8dpc=&#038;pagewanted=print\">big piece<\/a> today on my hometown, Santa Monica.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i> Next door, Rooms &#038; Gardens (No. 1311-A) sells furniture, antiques and accessories like pillows fashioned from an antique Indian sari. The actress Mary Steenburgen, one of the store\u2019s three owners, praised the walkability of the area \u2014 not a common commodity in Southern California \u2014 when I asked her about the location of her store. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing I love about Montana is that you feel as if you are in a pedestrian city,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s fun to look out the window and see people walking by with their dogs, instead of just cars streaming by.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to comment much on it, other than to say that the key word here is &#8220;feel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT had a big piece today on my hometown, Santa Monica. Next door, Rooms &#038; Gardens (No. 1311-A) sells furniture, antiques and accessories like pillows fashioned from an antique Indian sari. The actress Mary Steenburgen, one of the store\u2019s three owners, praised the walkability of the area \u2014 not a common commodity in Southern California \u2014 when I asked her about the location of her store. \u201cThe thing I love about Montana is that you feel as if you&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-journalism","category-santa-monica","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-pj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}