{"id":2409,"date":"2023-01-02T03:51:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T03:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2023-01-04T17:11:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T17:11:33","slug":"laurence-harbor-beach-yesterday-and-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/laurence-harbor-beach-yesterday-and-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurence Harbor Beach, yesterday and today"},"content":{"rendered":"

I visited Laurence Harbor Beach,<\/strong> (New Jersey) on 12\/30\/2022. Unfortunately, it was high tide, so beach combing was “slim pickings”.<\/p>\n

Laurence Harbor Beach today:
\n\"Laurence<\/p>\n

Here’s a postcard from the first half of the 20th century of the same beach:
\n\"Laurence<\/p>\n

Laurence Harbor is good for rounded brick chunks, bathroom tiles, and bay-tumbled stones. There is also some nice gneiss, but it is part of the sea wall, so don’t remove it. The sea wall at Laurence Harbor needs to be rebuilt. There’s a lot of erosion. <\/p>\n

Finding nothing interesting on Laurence Harbor beach…<\/p>\n

As usual, beach combing on Cliffwood Beach<\/a><\/strong> was better for beach combing. Neither beach is good for sea shells, but they’re good for weird rocks and human debris (old coins, bricks, railroad spikes, ceramic electrical insulators):<\/p>\n

Green basalt with crystals:
\n\"Green<\/p>\n

Ironstone with an interesting pattern:
\n\"IronStone\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I visited Laurence Harbor Beach, (New Jersey) on 12\/30\/2022. Unfortunately, it was high tide, so beach combing was “slim pickings”. Laurence Harbor Beach today: Here’s a postcard from the first half of the 20th century of the same beach: Laurence …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[97,64],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beaches","tag-97","tag-new-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}