{"id":13467,"date":"2025-01-21T16:36:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=13467"},"modified":"2025-01-22T07:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T12:26:15","slug":"the-streets-of-oceano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/13467","title":{"rendered":"The Streets Of Oceano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PUxefEcPjWk?si=9b8Zn3hzk3SCy6RW\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This music video by Martha Stromberg always makes me want to go back, and I have only just returned from a holiday visit. I have walked the streets in this video many times. Notice how the homes there are all built differently. I love that. Everyone puts their mark on their homes in a place where there&#8217;s no master developer plan, just lots people could build on. You don&#8217;t really see it in this video but there is an impressive amount of agriculture going on around there, and in the towns south of it along the coast. There&#8217;s a strawberry field where when in season you can get the best strawberries you have ever had. The food everywhere in that &#8220;five cities&#8221; area is amazing. The best clam chowder you will ever taste is found in a little place on the Pismo main drag called Splash, which usually has a long line out the door.<\/p>\n<p>I love it there&#8230;the plan originally was to retire back to Oceano. I was born in Pasadena and my dad&#8217;s side of the family is from Oceano and it has always called to me, ever since my first visit when I was 15. But alas, the cost of even basic housing there is way out of my retirement income reach and I can&#8217;t afford it. Home prices and rents there have exploded even more than they have here in central Maryland. I suppose because the climate is so perfect, and the nearby coastline is so beautiful. My brother often says he lives in a postcard. So I&#8217;m probably remaining here in my little Baltimore rowhouse forever. But at least I can visit. I visit often enough that the bartenders at Old Juan&#8217;s\u00a0 (you see their sign in this video) know me and what I&#8217;m likely to have.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m back home from a holiday visit to my brother and family that live in Oceano, and I have stories to tell. But they&#8217;ll have to wait until I&#8217;m recovered from the bug I caught on the train ride back.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime my brother there is suffering under winter conditions of 40s and 50s, and here in central Maryland they&#8217;re calling for 9 degrees tonight. Count your blessings brother mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This music video by Martha Stromberg always makes me want to go back, and I have only just returned from a holiday visit. I have walked the streets in this video many times. Notice how the homes there are all built differently. I love that. Everyone puts their mark on their homes in a place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[289,333],"class_list":["post-13467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-california-life","tag-oceano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13469,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13467\/revisions\/13469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}