{"id":3948,"date":"2016-05-26T23:06:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T15:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/26\/this-is-the-best-beach-in-america\/"},"modified":"2016-05-26T23:06:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T15:06:34","slug":"this-is-the-best-beach-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/26\/this-is-the-best-beach-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the best beach in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every year, coastal science professor Stephen Leatherman \u2014 also known as “Dr. Beach”<\/a> \u2014 ranks the best beaches in the U.S.<\/p>\n

At the top of the list for 2016: Hawaii’s Hanauma Bay, on Oahu.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: 8 innovations that could actually make airplanes more comfortable<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Leatherman, who is a professor and Director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research at Florida International University, uses 50 criteria to rank the quality of public beaches.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hanauma is a marine embayment formed within a tuff ring and located along the southeast coast of the Island of Oahu (just east of Honolulu) in the Hawaiian Islands.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>

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Every year, coastal science professor Stephen Leatherman \u2014 also known as “Dr. Beach” \u2014 ranks the best beaches in the U.S. At the top of the list for 2016: Hawaii’s Hanauma Bay, on Oahu. SEE ALSO: 8 innovations that could … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3066,986,1453,2405,785],"class_list":["post-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-beaches","tag-destinations","tag-hawaii","tag-summer-travel","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}