{"id":15231,"date":"2018-07-30T07:27:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T14:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/?p=15231"},"modified":"2018-07-30T16:48:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T23:48:21","slug":"santa-monica-beach-california-1887-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2018\/07\/30\/santa-monica-beach-california-1887-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Monica Beach, California, 1887"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15232\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2018\/07\/30\/santa-monica-beach-california-1887-2\/santa-monica-beach-california-1887\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Santa-Monica-Beach-California-1887.jpg?fit=960%2C601&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,601\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Santa Monica Beach, California, 1887\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Santa-Monica-Beach-California-1887.jpg?fit=300%2C188&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Santa-Monica-Beach-California-1887.jpg?fit=640%2C401&ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15232\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Santa-Monica-Beach-California-1887.jpg?resize=640%2C401&ssl=1\" alt=\"Santa Monica Beach, California, 1887\" width=\"640\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Santa-Monica-Beach-California-1887.jpg?w=960&ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Santa-Monica-Beach-California-1887.jpg?resize=300%2C188&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Santa-Monica-Beach-California-1887.jpg?resize=768%2C481&ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>This photo is one of the earliest shots of Los Angeles I\u2019ve come across. This is Santa Monica beach in 1887. I\u2019m pretty sure these dozen or so people had their entire beach to themselves, which for this modern-day Angeleno is hard to imagine. It\u2019s also hard to imagine that those cyclists would have had an easy time of it riding their penny-farthings along the ocean shore. (Are they still called penny-farthings if the small wheel is at the front…?)<\/h3>\n<h3>Al says: “<em>They are Penny Farthings but with the reverse wheel distinction they were known as the Hi-Wheel Eagle. I believe they were first marketed in 1891 or thereabouts.<\/em>“<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo is one of the earliest shots of Los Angeles I\u2019ve come across. This is Santa Monica beach in 1887. I\u2019m pretty sure these dozen or so people had their entire beach to themselves, which for this modern-day Angeleno … <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/2018\/07\/30\/santa-monica-beach-california-1887-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[54,19,50],"class_list":["post-15231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1800s","tag-beaches","tag-santa-monica"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XK3w-3XF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15234,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231\/revisions\/15234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinturnbull.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}