{"id":6309,"date":"2013-07-11T09:23:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T14:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=6309"},"modified":"2013-07-11T09:24:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T14:24:21","slug":"los-angeles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=6309","title":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6310\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6310\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180182.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6310\" alt=\"PAPARAZZI\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180182-1024x674.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180182-1024x674.jpg 1024w, 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http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180167-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EXTRA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6312\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6312\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180155.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6312\" alt=\"COOLING THEIR FEET\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180155-1024x681.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180155-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180155-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">COOLING THEIR FEET<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6313\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-179982.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6313\" alt=\"CHASING BUBBLES\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-179982-1024x956.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-179982-1024x956.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-179982-300x280.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-179982.jpg 1662w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CHASING BUBBLES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6314\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180071.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6314\" alt=\"ABOUT TO BURST\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180071-1024x957.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180071-1024x957.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180071-300x280.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180071.jpg 1597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ABOUT TO BURST<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6315\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180073.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6315\" alt=\"ALWAYS ONE MORE\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180073-665x1024.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180073-665x1024.jpg 665w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180073-194x300.jpg 194w, http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/the-grove-7-10-13-180073.jpg 1391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ALWAYS ONE MORE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;re here, after 5000 miles in the car, having seen some of the most amazing things on earth, we have arrived at our destination:Los Angeles. LaLa land. We went to The Grove with the grandchildren. I will confess I was apprehensive, because I keep a bad memory from the last time I was there. Being there this time with grandchildren clearly changed the focus for me. They saw the best parts of it completely unaware of the rest.<\/p>\n<p>The paparazzi were there in numbers. I suppose because the TV show &#8220;Extra&#8221; is filmed there daily. On occasion I have been asked if I were a paparazzi; when the answer was no the people were clearly disappointed. LA is the best people watching place on earth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re here, after 5000 miles in the car, having seen some of the most amazing things on earth, we have arrived at our destination:Los Angeles. LaLa land. We went to The Grove with the grandchildren. I will confess I was apprehensive, because I keep a bad memory from the last time I was there. Being &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=6309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LOS ANGELES SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1427],"tags":[2449],"class_list":["post-6309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6318,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions\/6318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}