{"id":11797,"date":"2013-04-16T02:21:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T09:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=11797"},"modified":"2013-04-16T02:21:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T09:21:53","slug":"california-olive-and-olive-oil-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-olive-and-olive-oil-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"California Olive and Olive Oil Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bedraces.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s that wild and wacky time of year when anything goes&#8211;including your bed right out the door of your bedroom as it heads onto city streets for a bed race at the Corning Olive Festival. It&#8217;s not quite the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-kinetic-sculpture-race.html\">Kinetic Sculpture Grand Championship<\/a>, but it will do. \u00a0 Olive and olive oil festivals, contests, and blessings are celebrations of California&#8217;s Mediterranean climate and the incredible olive products that locals find fresher and sometimes better than imported European counterparts. When it was discovered that the age of oils imported weren&#8217;t always what was claimed, consumers began taking a look at \u00a0&#8220;California grown&#8221;. Our state \u00a0produces exceptional oils you owe it to yourself to try and maybe even buy.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-olive-festivals.html\"> Here&#8217;s a list of special olive events this year<\/a>. Warning! Once you sample local olive oils, you&#8217;ll never be the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that wild and wacky time of year when anything goes&#8211;including your bed right out the door of your bedroom as it heads onto city streets for a bed race at the Corning Olive Festival. It&#8217;s not quite the Kinetic Sculpture Grand Championship, but it will do. \u00a0 Olive and olive oil festivals, contests, and [&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\/11797"}],"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=11797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}