{"id":5280,"date":"2015-12-11T18:19:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T23:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erikathomas.com\/?p=5280"},"modified":"2016-01-11T18:25:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T23:25:53","slug":"south-beach-is-a-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/?p=5280","title":{"rendered":"south beach is a jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever visited South Beach? It&#8217;s funny, because when I moved to the area 7 years ago, I had never even visited. I came from a small town, Pensacola FL, and I almost moved to L.A., but I decided to stay in Florida. Geographically, Miami and Pensacola are literal opposites in the state, and the differences definitely don&#8217;t stop there. Over the years I have grown to view Miami as a city I love, a place I call home, and an area with so many possibilities. I know it&#8217;s not for everyone (let&#8217;s be honest, nowhere is), but living on the mainland and working on South Beach have given me such great insight into the city. When I travel, I miss it. While of course there are some things I would change (real estate prices, parking options, and AHEM please reopen the Venetian asap), on the whole I can say I am happy with the life we have carved out for ourselves in this sunny city.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing I am fond of? The Miami version of winter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2970-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5281\" src=\"http:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2970-2.jpg\" alt=\"erika thomas\" width=\"1572\" height=\"2209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2970-2.jpg 1572w, https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2970-2-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2970-2-426x600.jpg 426w, https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2970-2-940x1320.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1572px) 100vw, 1572px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2971.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5282\" src=\"http:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2971.jpg\" alt=\"erika thomas\" width=\"1113\" height=\"1592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2971.jpg 1113w, https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2971-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2971-419x600.jpg 419w, https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2971-940x1344.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1113px) 100vw, 1113px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2972.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5283\" src=\"http:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2972.jpg\" alt=\"erika thomas miami blogger\" width=\"1747\" height=\"2556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2972.jpg 1747w, https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2972-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2972-410x600.jpg 410w, https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_2972-940x1375.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1747px) 100vw, 1747px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever visited South Beach? It&#8217;s funny, because when I moved to the area 7 years ago, I had never even visited. I came from a small town, Pensacola FL, and I almost moved to L.A., but I decided to stay in Florida. Geographically, Miami and Pensacola are literal opposites in the state, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion","category-miami","category-outfits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5284,"href":"https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions\/5284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikathomas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}