{"id":8630,"date":"2016-06-03T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=8630"},"modified":"2016-06-03T01:01:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T05:01:09","slug":"vote-to-help-brick-become-n-j-s-favorite-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/06\/vote-to-help-brick-become-n-j-s-favorite-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote to Help Brick Become N.J.&#8217;s &#8216;Favorite Beach&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1372\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/beach_iii.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/beach_iii.jpg\" alt=\"Brick Beach III (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/beach_iii.jpg 960w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/beach_iii-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/beach_iii-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brick Beach III (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s just one week left to vote for your favorite beach in New Jersey \u2013 and Brick residents, naturally, are being asked to vote for their hometown sand.<\/p>\n<p>The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium hosts the contest each year and crowns the state\u2019s top beach with support from environmental and business leaders statewide. This year, Sea Grant has tweaked the contest (which used to be named New Jersey\u2019s Top 10 Beaches) to declare a \u201cfavorite\u201d beach in each coastal county.<\/p>\n<p>The annual contest not only provides Shore towns with bragging rights, but highlights the <a href=\"http:\/\/njseagrant.org\/research\/research-projects\/\">numerous research projects<\/a> Sea Grant funds each year in New Jersey, from living shorelines, to dunes, to issues affecting Barnegat Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Voters can choose one beach in each county on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Voting is open until June 10. <a href=\"http:\/\/njseagrant.org\/njfavoritebeach\/\">The ballot can be found here, on the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium website.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/06\/vote-to-help-brick-become-n-j-s-favorite-beach\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s just one week left to vote for your favorite beach in New Jersey \u2013 and Brick residents, naturally, are being asked to vote for their hometown sand. The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium hosts the contest each year and crowns the state\u2019s top beach with support from environmental and business leaders statewide. This year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[24,2216,2217],"class_list":["post-8630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","category-shore-environment","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-new-jersey-sea-grant-consortium","tag-new-jerseys-favorite-beaches"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/beach_iii.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2fc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}