{"id":6,"date":"2008-02-01T16:59:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T21:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2011-12-07T13:54:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T11:54:27","slug":"silver-springs-place-for-family-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/silver-springs-place-for-family-fun.htm","title":{"rendered":"Silver Springs &#8211; a place for fun for the entire family"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Silver Springs in Florida &#8211; one well known tourist destination<\/h3>\n<p>During the hot summer days the many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/florida\/springs\/index.html\" title=\"Florida Springs - pictures\">Florida Springs<\/a> are some of the most attractive places to go. Clear water with constant temperature year round and many recreational possibilities, including scuba diving,snorkeling, canoeing, fishing,swimming and others, are just perfect alternatives to the busy city life.<\/p>\n<p>Silver Springs is a small town in Marion County, North Central Florida, several miles east of Ocala.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/local.google.com\/local?ie=UTF8&amp;q=16.60428,120.31248&amp;om=1&amp;ll=29.225295,-81.99646&amp;spn=0.50935,1.18515&amp;z=10\" target=\"_blank\">Silver Springs on Google maps<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silver Springs provide the headwaters of Silver River &#8211; nearly 550 million gallons crystal clear water are being delivered  every day.This forms the largest natural artesian spring system in the world. The water purity is 99.8% and temperature is 72 degrees F year round. The water is so clear and transparent that the place became favorite for filming and TV shows&#8217; underwater scenes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/img\/posts\/crystal_and_transparent.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal and clear water\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The high visibility makes things look nearby as the bottom might be dozens of feet away from the surface.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/florida\/springs\/silver_springs_park.html\" title=\"See pictures from Silver Springs Park\">park<\/a> is open every day from 10am to 5 pm and combines the natural environment with family entertainment of different kinds (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/florida\/springs\/silver_springs.html\" title=\"See pictures from Silver River glass bottom boat cruise\">glass bottom cruises<\/a>, concerts, animal shows and others). Admission is $34 for adult and includes all the features inside the park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/florida\/springs\/silver_springs.html\" title=\"See more pictures from Silver River glass bottom boat cruise\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/img\/posts\/glass_bottom.jpg\" alt=\"Glass bottom boat\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the glass bottom boats you can see all underwater habitants and feed  them<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\">Have fun and enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Springs &#8211; one well known tourist destination in Florida and a place for fun for the entire family &#8211; glass bottom cruises, gardens, animal shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,83,5],"tags":[53,52],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florida","category-happy-life","category-travel","tag-glass-bottom-boat-cruise","tag-silver-springs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allabouthappylife.com\/happy_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}