{"id":762,"date":"2012-09-05T22:18:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T05:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel\/?p=762"},"modified":"2016-08-28T09:41:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T16:41:14","slug":"september-5-it-always-rains-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/09\/05\/september-5-it-always-rains-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"September 5: It Always Rains in Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-805\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/California-Coast-Fog.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/California-Coast-Fog.png\" alt=\"California Coast in the Fog\" title=\"California Coast Fog\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/California-Coast-Fog.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/California-Coast-Fog-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Coast on Route 1 in Fog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mile 6597 &#8211; Los Angeles, California.<\/strong>\u00a0 We drove from Carmel, along the beautiful California coast past Big Sur and Santa Barbara, with a lot of fog and gray skies.\u00a0 Leave it to us to have mostly dry weather for five whole weeks, only to come to Southern California and see rain where you&#8217;re not supposed to.\u00a0 It was only sprinkles, but still.<\/p>\n<p>While we are in L.A., I need to give my car an oil change, do more laundry, handle my mail (which has been forwarded here),\u00a0and spend time with my dad and stepmother.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll take a two-day break from blogging and will resume posts on Saturday, the 8th.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-804\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/California-Coast.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/California-Coast.png\" alt=\"California Coast\" title=\"California Coast\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/California-Coast.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/California-Coast-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Coast on Route 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-806\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LA-Traffic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LA-Traffic.png\" alt=\"Los Angeles Traffic\" title=\"LA Traffic\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LA-Traffic.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LA-Traffic-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Traffic on I-405<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_803\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-803\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Prius-LA.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Prius-LA.png\" alt=\"Our Prius in Los Angeles\" title=\"Prius in LA\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Prius-LA.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Prius-LA-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our Prius in Los Angeles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Vintage Postcard Project:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/vintage\/september-5-santa-barbara\" title=\"Aunt Esther's Vintage Postcards(new site)\">September 5: Near Santa Barbara, California<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Photographs &copy; 2012 P.J. Gardner. All Rights Reserved.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mile 6597 &#8211; Los Angeles, California.\u00a0 We drove from Carmel, along the beautiful California coast past Big Sur and Santa Barbara, with a lot of fog and gray skies.\u00a0 Leave it to us to have mostly dry weather for five whole weeks, only to come to Southern California and see rain where you&#8217;re not supposed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/09\/05\/september-5-it-always-rains-in-california\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;September 5: It Always Rains in Southern California&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arjan","category-pj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}