{"id":604,"date":"2009-06-06T10:29:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T18:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=604"},"modified":"2009-06-06T10:29:16","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T18:29:16","slug":"monterey-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"Monterey Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memorial_Day\">Memorial Day<\/a> weekend we rented a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrbo.com\/103695\">condo<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pacific_Grove,_California\">Pacific Grove<\/a>, a cute little town on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monterey_Bay\">Monterey Bay<\/a>. On the way down, we stopped at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swantonberryfarm.com\/\">strawberry picking farm<\/a>, where we picked three baskets of strawberries and Claire ate at least 30.\u00a0 We had a relaxing time, going for long stroller rides along the ocean, taking the girls to their first visit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montereybayaquarium.org\/\">Monterey Bay Aquarium<\/a>, sighsteeing along <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pebblebeach.com\/page.asp?id=1373\">17-Mile Drive<\/a>, and even discovering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishalesbrewery.com\/\">a brewery that makes tasty English ales<\/a>. We also got a cute picture of Juliet in her strawberry-themed pyjamas, which was one of our favorite outfits of Claire&#8217;s.\u00a0 Click on the photo below of Claire &#8220;picking&#8221; a strawberry\u00a0for a slideshow.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"toggleborder\" title=\"slideshow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22311334@N00\/sets\/72157619337595870\/show\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3404\/3601001577_51bafb692c_m.jpg?resize=161%2C240\" width=\"161\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Claire eating strawberries she is supposed to be picking\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over Memorial Day weekend we rented a condo in Pacific Grove, a cute little town on\u00a0Monterey Bay. On the way down, we stopped at a strawberry picking farm, where we picked three baskets of strawberries and Claire ate at least 30.\u00a0 We had a relaxing time, going for long stroller rides along the ocean, taking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=604\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monterey Bay<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,20,35],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-claire","tag-juliet","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5eQE-9K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}