{"id":1355,"date":"2013-07-01T09:51:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T13:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2013-07-01T10:15:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T14:15:28","slug":"to-the-sea-by-the-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/2013\/07\/to-the-sea-by-the-t\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Sea by the T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Boston has many beaches, all swimmable, many people just  go to the Cape and don&#8217;t think to try the beaches nearby. This link  from BU TODAY<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2013\/boston-beaches-accessible-by-mbta\/\">, To the Sea by the T<\/a> has a really cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2013\/boston-beaches-accessible-by-mbta\/\">Map<\/a> showing the beaches and how to get  there via the T for the cost of a subway fare. My favorite is  Revere Beach (200 meters from the Blue Line Revere Beach stop),  particularly for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateboston.com\/events\/revere-beach-sand-sculpting-festival.htm\">National Sand Sculpting Festival<\/a> that runs <b>July 19-21 in 2013<\/b>. Most people&#8217;s favorite is Nantasket Beach on Hull (best by car, since still a 3.1 mile walk or short taxi from the T).\u00a0 Bicycling is another option&#8230;\u00a0 Taking the ferry to one of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonharborislands.org\/\"> Boston Harbor Islands<\/a> is another easy choice.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2013\/boston-beaches-accessible-by-mbta\/\">To the Sea by the T<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A guide to MBTA-accessible beaches<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2013\/boston-beaches-accessible-by-mbta\/\">Map<\/a><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2013\/boston-beaches-accessible-by-mbta\/<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateboston.com\/events\/revere-beach-sand-sculpting-festival.htm\">National Sand Sculpting Festival<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Unbelievable pictures from past sand sculpture contests at Revere Beach.<\/h3>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/reverebeach.com\/2012-winners-sandsculpting-festival\/\">2012<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8421\/7571685558_a5319df9c9_z.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mike01905\/7571685558\/&amp;h=480&amp;w=640&amp;sz=209&amp;tbnid=1rn3U0hfIVxJ6M:&amp;tbnh=90&amp;tbnw=120&amp;zoom=1&amp;usg=__0F1Mh2VgdR7jcPL9Bdd3IV4VSm0=&amp;docid=1M2dj2pQup-YjM&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=-4rRUfu2H7DD4APRqoGYAQ&amp;ved=0CEAQ9QEwAg&amp;dur=6251#imgdii=_\">2012<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mike01905\/5944558551\/in\/photostream\/\">2011<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateboston.com\/revere-beach\/sand-sculpting-festival-photos.htm\"> 2010<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateboston.com\/revere-beach\/sand-sculpting-festival-photos-2006.htm\">2006<\/a><\/h1>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><big>Enjoy Summer!<\/big><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Boston has many beaches, all swimmable, many people just go to the Cape and don&#8217;t think to try the beaches nearby. This link from BU TODAY, To the Sea by the T has a really cool Map showing the beaches and how to get there via the T for the cost of a subway &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/2013\/07\/to-the-sea-by-the-t\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To the Sea by the T<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185],"tags":[10937,10930,10936],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ellisrp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}