{"id":44,"date":"2010-02-24T08:42:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T16:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2010-02-24T08:42:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T16:42:35","slug":"carmel-by-the-sea-and-tonys-33rd-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/2010\/02\/24\/carmel-by-the-sea-and-tonys-33rd-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmel-by-the-Sea and Tony&#8217;s 33rd Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_43\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43\" style=\"width: 553px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1000868.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-43  \" title=\"The beach at Carmel-by-the-Sea\" src=\"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1000868-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The beach at Carmel-by-the-Sea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After passing through Paso Robles, we headed north to Carmel and Big Sur. \u00a0 Carmel itself is a sleepy\/touristy town. \u00a0You&#8217;ll find tons of art galleries, real estate offices, and nice restaurants. \u00a0So, that means you&#8217;ll find a lot of people walking around with a lot of money &#8211; typically ones with more &#8220;experience&#8221;. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Big Sur is to the south &#8211; if you ever go to Carmel, definitely take a drive down the 1 for the beautiful views. \u00a0We love the area and got engaged near Carmel at Point Lobos State Park almost 3 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Here we are at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/passionfish-pacific-grove-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Passionfish<\/a> in Pacific Grove (north of Carmel) on my 33rd birthday. \u00a0It&#8217;s one of our favorite restaurants in the area, featuring sustainable seafood dishes, and a modest 1.5x mark-up on wine, a portion of which is donated to a fund for saving bluefin tuna. \u00a0Definitely a must-try if you are in the area.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47\" style=\"width: 614px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1000864.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-47 \" title=\"33rd Birthday at Passionfish in Pacific Grove\" src=\"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1000864-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">33rd Birthday at Passionfish in Pacific Grove<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Next up, we visit the Bay area to catch up with some old friends and decadent dining experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After passing through Paso Robles, we headed north to Carmel and Big Sur. \u00a0 Carmel itself is a sleepy\/touristy town. \u00a0You&#8217;ll find tons of art galleries, real estate offices, and nice restaurants. \u00a0So, that means you&#8217;ll find a lot of people walking around with a lot of money &#8211; typically ones with more &#8220;experience&#8221;. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}