{"id":5482,"date":"2015-05-26T07:37:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T11:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=5482"},"modified":"2015-05-26T11:53:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:53:31","slug":"take-5-a-day-at-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-a-day-at-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Take 5: A Day at the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you head to the beach during the long weekend? Here are five fantastic images from our past\u00a0Photo Contests<\/a>\u00a0that capture the joy of a day spent with sand and surf.<\/p>\n

\"2012

2012 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Melanie Mendez<\/p><\/div>\n

\"2012

2012 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Carrie Pericola<\/p><\/div>\n

\"2013

2013 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Dana Goedewaagen<\/p><\/div>\n

\"2014

2014 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Kasia Lynch<\/p><\/div>\n

\"2014

2014 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Andrew Dai<\/p><\/div>\n

Have a great shot of your own? Enter our 2015 Picture This: Your Great Outdoors<\/a> photo contest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you head to the beach during the long weekend? Here are five fantastic images from our past\u00a0Photo Contests\u00a0that capture the joy of a day spent with sand and surf. Have a great shot of your own? Enter our 2015 Picture This: Your Great Outdoors photo contest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-take-5"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-1qq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10602,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-caption-this\/","url_meta":{"origin":5482,"position":0},"title":"Take 5: Caption This!","author":"Ryan D.","date":"February 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's play \"Caption That Photo\"! 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