{"id":4968,"date":"2012-04-19T08:42:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T15:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2019-12-26T21:30:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T04:30:29","slug":"the-20-best-small-towns-in-america-smithsonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2012\/04\/the-20-best-small-towns-in-america-smithsonian\/","title":{"rendered":"The 20 Best Small Towns in America &#8211; Smithsonian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/124_8394laguna-beach-heron-great-egret.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/124_8394laguna-beach-heron-great-egret.jpg\" alt=\"pacific ocean california beach bird crane great egret white heron\" title=\"laguna beach heron great egret\" width=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/travel\/The-20-Best-Small-Towns-in-America.html?c=y&#038;page=19&#038;navigation=next#IMAGES target=_new>Ashland<\/a> was chosen as one of &#8220;The 20 Best Small Towns in America&#8221; by Smithsonian. But today&#8217;s photo comes not from Ashland but from one of the other 20 Best Small Towns, <a href=http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/travel\/The-20-Best-Small-Towns-in-America.html?c=y&#038;page=18&#038;navigation=next#IMAGES target=_new>Laguna Beach<\/a>. I took this photo of a Great Egret (Great White Heron) this past Sunday when I was exploring Laguna Beach. <\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Ashland has made one of these &#8220;Best of&#8221; lists. Ashland was previously chosen as one of the &#8220;Best Places to Retire&#8221; and &#8220;Best Places to Live&#8221; and &#8220;Best Ski Towns&#8221; and &#8220;Best Places to Thrive&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2011\/06\/outside-magazines-best-town-ever\/>Best Town Ever<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashland was chosen as one of &#8220;The 20 Best Small Towns in America&#8221; by Smithsonian. But today&#8217;s photo comes not from Ashland but from one of the other 20 Best Small Towns, Laguna Beach. I took this photo of a Great Egret (Great White Heron) this past Sunday when I was exploring Laguna Beach. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,87],"tags":[166,130,144,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22943,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions\/22943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}