{"id":10777,"date":"2010-07-20T22:20:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T04:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=10777"},"modified":"2020-06-19T23:00:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T03:00:11","slug":"santa-monica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=10777","title":{"rendered":"Santa Monica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first stop on our journeys around Southern California was the century old Santa Monica Pier, located at the bottom of Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica and the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._Route_66\">Route 66<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>For <em>La Ni\u00f1a<\/em>, this was the place where Lily had her 16th birthday party in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1114677\/\">Hannah Montana Movie<\/a>. So, she danced, she sang, and she did her best to enjoy every aspect of the beautiful beach.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the rides in Pacific Park on the Pier (say that 10 times fast) were pretty cool to a 5-year old adrenaline junky who did the <em>Pacific Plunge<\/em> dozens of times&#8230; long after I bailed. And, much too the delight of other riders, the operator often gave into her high pitched screams of <em>again again again again again<\/em> and gave everyone extra time on the ride whenever it was her turn. <\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10777 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=71624'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/600px-P1020833-400x338.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wend.ca\/?attachment_id=71625'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/600px-P1020836-400x338.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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