{"id":4166,"date":"2013-03-25T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T22:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2013-03-28T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T20:41:33","slug":"raymond-goes-to-californias-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/raymond-goes-to-californias-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Goes to California&#8217;s Coast!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Greetings, folks! Our Christmas countdown continues, and to celebrate today?March 25th?I&#8217;m sending you a hearty salutation, saying ?Happy 9 months until Christmas!?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As you probably know by now, Raymond loves to travel. So when he heard that I was traveling to California, he eagerly offered to accompany me on the trip. While we were there, we took a stroll along the coast in Ventura, CA. We enjoyed the salty scent of the Pacific Ocean and the peaceful surging and ebbing of the waves on the beach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\" wp-image-4168 aligncenter\" title=\"Raymond watching the waves\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5386.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5386.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5386-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5386-220x146.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After gazing at the beautiful scenery, Raymond trotted off to play in the sand. He dug a hole in the sand with his shovel and guess what happened next?<\/p>\n<p>He covered himself with a mound of sand? with a little bit of help from me \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\" wp-image-4167 aligncenter\" title=\"Raymond's buried in the sand!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5384.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5384.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5384-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5384-220x146.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then Raymond spotted some seagulls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\" class=\" wp-image-4169 aligncenter\" title=\"Raymond and the seagull\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5394a-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5394a-small.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5394a-small-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5394a-small-300x450.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_5394a-small-120x180.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He was tempted to chase after them, but just as he realized that wouldn&#8217;t be a kind thing to do, the seagulls flew away.<\/p>\n<p>What else do you think Raymond is up to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, folks! Our Christmas countdown continues, and to celebrate today?March 25th?I&#8217;m sending you a hearty salutation, saying ?Happy 9 months until Christmas!? As you probably know by now, Raymond loves to travel. So when he heard that I was traveling to California, he eagerly offered to accompany me on the trip. While we were there,&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/raymond-goes-to-californias-coast\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-raymond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4179,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions\/4179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}