{"id":1789,"date":"2016-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/main-bvxea6i-tdeoyxfdffv2e.us-3.platformsh.site\/forbes-travel-guide-spending-two-perfect-days-in-laguna-beach\/"},"modified":"2024-02-20T16:20:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:20:12","slug":"forbes-travel-guide-spending-two-perfect-days-in-laguna-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitlagunabeach.com\/blog\/forbes-travel-guide-spending-two-perfect-days-in-laguna-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes Travel Guide: Spending Two Perfect Days in Laguna Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She fell head over heels in love with our town.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center\"><em>\u201cNestled between the Pacific Ocean and Laguna Canyon, and spanning just 8.8 square miles, is the artist\u2019s colony and beach community known as Laguna Beach. A local treasure in Orange County located 30 minutes south of John Wayne Airport, Laguna Beach is synonymous with near-perfect weather year round, gorgeous sunsets, water sports, fresh California cuisine and afternoons frolicking in the sand. In other words, it\u2019s the perfect beach vacation waiting to happen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a tour of her time with us..<\/p>\n<section class=\"section section--center section--rich\"> <iframe class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" id=\"instagram-embed-0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BB09GNfuraB\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=8&amp;wp=640&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.visitlagunabeach.com&amp;rp=%2Fblog%2Fforbes-travel-guide-spending-two-perfect-days-in-laguna-beach%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A1667.3000001907349%2C%22ls%22%3A572.7000002861023%2C%22le%22%3A928.9000000953674%7D\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"934\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"background: white; max-width: 640px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); box-shadow: none; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 12px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px;\"><\/iframe> <script async=\"\" defer=\"\" src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script> <\/section>\n<section class=\"section section--center section--rich\"> <iframe class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" id=\"instagram-embed-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BB09TlOOraW\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=8&amp;wp=640&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.visitlagunabeach.com&amp;rp=%2Fblog%2Fforbes-travel-guide-spending-two-perfect-days-in-laguna-beach%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A1%2C%22os%22%3A1692.3000001907349%2C%22ls%22%3A572.7000002861023%2C%22le%22%3A928.9000000953674%7D\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"934\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-1\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"background: white; 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min-width: 326px; padding: 0px;\"><\/iframe> <script async=\"\" defer=\"\" src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script> <\/section>\n<section class=\"section section--center section--rich\"> <iframe class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" id=\"instagram-embed-10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BB8KNUTurWH\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=8&amp;wp=640&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.visitlagunabeach.com&amp;rp=%2Fblog%2Fforbes-travel-guide-spending-two-perfect-days-in-laguna-beach%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A10%2C%22os%22%3A4431.300000190735%2C%22ls%22%3A572.7000002861023%2C%22le%22%3A928.9000000953674%7D\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"970\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-10\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"background: white; max-width: 640px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); box-shadow: none; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 12px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px;\"><\/iframe> <script async=\"\" defer=\"\" src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script> <\/section>\n<p>For more of her story, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.forbestravelguide.com\/spending-two-perfect-days-in-laguna-beach#cmpid=mpham\" target=\"_blank\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/blog.forbestravelguide.com\/spending-two-perfect-days-in-laguna-beach#cmpid=mpham\" data-kmt=\"1\" rel=\"noopener\" mce_>FORBES TRAVEL GUIDE<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently travel writer Mai Pham (@FEMME_FOODIE) visited Laguna Beach for an assignment with Forbes Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,25,19,108,109,110,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach","category-culinary","category-las-brisas","category-montage-laguna-beach","category-splashes","category-surf-and-sand-resort","category-travel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitlagunabeach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitlagunabeach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitlagunabeach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitlagunabeach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitlagunabeach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitlagunabeach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitlagunabeach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitlagunabeach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitlagunabeach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitlagunabeach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitlagunabeach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}