{"id":11023,"date":"2013-02-18T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=11023"},"modified":"2014-02-16T12:46:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T20:46:58","slug":"scotsfest-queen-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/scotsfest-queen-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotsfest at Queen Mary a Major Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/scofests.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach, Ca&#8211;The iconic Queen Mary recently celebrated its roots by hosting Scotsfest. And what a party it threw for thousands of happy Scots (and those who were temporarily Scottish) who attended the incredibly popular two-day annual festival.<\/p>\n<p>Talented athletes, sensational musicians and delicious food (as well as drink), plus so much more were featured at the extravaganza in such a beautiful setting&#8211;both on board and next to the Queen. It&#8217;s unlike any other Scottish Festival you&#8217;ve been too.<\/p>\n<p>Built in Scotland in the 1930s, the spectacular luxury liner (and World War II troop carrier) was a lively and gracious host. Many of the enthusiastic activities were onboard the Queen, including the Rock Yer Kilt Concert, Solo Piping and Drumming Competitions, Highland Dance Contests, a Royal Dart Tourney and even Scottish Whisky Tasting Classes.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was the majestic Queen rocking&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/long-beach-scotsfest.html\">read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald Long Beach, Ca&#8211;The iconic Queen Mary recently celebrated its roots by hosting Scotsfest. And what a party it threw for thousands of happy Scots (and those who were temporarily Scottish) who attended the incredibly popular two-day annual festival. Talented athletes, sensational musicians and delicious food (as well as drink), plus so much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11023"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}