{"id":5183,"date":"2017-06-28T00:21:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T00:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5183"},"modified":"2022-06-13T17:29:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:29:22","slug":"a-beach-on-lake-michigan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5183","title":{"rendered":"A beach on Lake Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While on the western side of the lower peninsula of Michigan we visited a beach in Muskegon. It was a small beach with a boardwalk through the sand dunes that were covered in grasses.<\/p>\n<p>There was surf today! A storm is heading our way from the west and it&#8217;s creating quite a good surf, which a local told me only happens when there&#8217;s a high wind coming from the west. THe rest of the time it&#8217;s very calm.<\/p>\n<p>The beach has very fine white sand. 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It was a small beach with a boardwalk through the sand dunes that were covered in grasses. There was surf today! A storm is heading our way from the west and it&#8217;s creating quite a good surf, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=5183\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A beach on Lake Michigan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-133-michigan-lower-peninsula-southwest-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6662,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions\/6662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}