{"id":2503,"date":"2016-07-01T03:13:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T07:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2016-07-01T03:14:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T07:14:20","slug":"seaside-heights-named-ocean-countys-favorite-beach-but-not-top-in-n-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/07\/seaside-heights-named-ocean-countys-favorite-beach-but-not-top-in-n-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaside Heights Named Ocean County&#8217;s Favorite Beach, Misses Top in N.J."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2504\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13532899_10206665044324116_6737291761166319878_n.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Seaside Heights was named Ocean County&#039;s top beach for 2016. (Photo: NJ Sea Grant Consortium)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2504\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2504\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13532899_10206665044324116_6737291761166319878_n.jpg\" alt=\"Seaside Heights was named Ocean County's top beach for 2016. (Photo: NJ Sea Grant Consortium)\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13532899_10206665044324116_6737291761166319878_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13532899_10206665044324116_6737291761166319878_n-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seaside Heights was named Ocean County\u2019s top beach for 2016. (Photo: NJ Sea Grant Consortium)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Seaside Heights was voted Ocean County\u2019s favorite beach in an annual survey of New Jersey residents and visitors, but didn\u2019t quite make the top spot in the Garden State.<\/p>\n<p>The annual vote, organized by the <a href=\"http:\/\/njseagrant.org\/\">New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium<\/a>, is aimed at promoting tourism in New Jersey while shedding light on\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/njseagrant.org\/research\/research-projects\/\">numerous coastal\u00a0research projects<\/a> the organization funds each year.<\/p>\n<p>Seaside Heights was named the county\u2019s top beach, followed by Point Pleasant Beach, the runner up. Overall, Ocean City was named the favorite beach in New Jersey, followed by Wildwood Crest. Those two towns, naturally, won the top two spots in Cape May County.<\/p>\n<p>Sandy Hook and Asbury Park were the favorite beaches in Monmouth County, and Brigantine and Atlantic City were named the top beaches in Atlantic County.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/07\/seaside-heights-named-ocean-countys-favorite-beach-but-not-top-in-n-j\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seaside Heights was voted Ocean County\u2019s favorite beach in an annual survey of New Jersey residents and visitors, but didn\u2019t quite make the top spot in the Garden State. The annual vote, organized by the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium, is aimed at promoting tourism in New Jersey while shedding light on\u00a0the\u00a0numerous coastal\u00a0research projects the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[18,5],"tags":[562,561,20],"class_list":["post-2503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-seaside-heights","tag-new-jersey-sea-grant-consortium","tag-new-jerseys-favorite-beaches","tag-seaside-heights-nj-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/13532899_10206665044324116_6737291761166319878_n.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-En","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}