{"id":368,"date":"2006-03-08T11:46:26","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T19:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2006-03-10T11:59:42","modified_gmt":"2006-03-10T19:59:42","slug":"avalon-bay-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/03\/08\/avalon-bay-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalon Bay &#8211; Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a difference 117 years made to this serene little cove on Santa Catalina Island. This is a shot taken circa 1889 from a hill west of the bay looking toward the old <strong>Hotel Metropole<\/strong>. <em>Photo credit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colapublib.org\/history\/catalina\/images.html\">COLA Public Library Website<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0603\/oldavalon.jpg\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this is a shot of the bay we took last September from about the same place:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0603\/avalonbay.jpg\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This next shot was taken from the bay looking toward the location of the old Hotel Metropole seen in the top picture (the old Metropole burned down years ago). The new Hotel Metropole hotel is located amongst the clutter just behind the tall palm trees in the center of the photo.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0603\/newmetropole.jpg\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a difference 117 years made to this serene little cove on Santa Catalina Island. This is a shot taken circa 1889 from a hill west&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}