{"id":11881,"date":"2013-04-23T02:35:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T09:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=11881"},"modified":"2013-04-23T14:24:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T21:24:31","slug":"weird-parades-doo-dah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/weird-parades-doo-dah\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Weird Parades Will Light Your Fire, Make Your Doo Dah Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/howdood2.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The moon must be in the 7th House this weekend as Jupiter aligns with Mars. There&#8217;s just too much strangeness going on out there but then again, it&#8217;s only California. In the photos left to right: at Petaluma&#8217;s Butter &amp; Eggs Days Parade a funky chicken rides on an antique car&#8211;and people actually cheer! \u00a0Next, a girl plays with fire, a UFO floats in the air and a guitarist rocks out on the ground during the Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena. 2nd photo from the right shows a girl who walks on stilts at San Francisco&#8217;s How Weird Festival parade. And finally in right photo, all you need is love as flower power hippies take a trip down Memory Lane at Eureka&#8217;s Rhody Parade.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend is made for a little bit of letting go and a whole lot of fun. If you don&#8217;t float your boat watching Newport Beach&#8217;s Newport to Ensenda race or seeing that city&#8217;s Film Fest screenings, head to Pasadena for the annual, entertaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/pasadena-doodah-parade.html\">Doo Dah Parade<\/a> on April 27, 2013. \u00a0On the very same day hundreds of miles away it feels like another planet as funky chickens and cute little chicks celebrate Petaluma&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/parades\/petaluma-butter-eggs-parade.html\">Butter &amp; Eggs Day Parade<\/a>. History comes to life as Egg Capitol of the World remembers its golden era. And for rock band roadies and flower rhodies, \u00a0be sure to mellow out at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/parades\/eureka-rhododendron-parade.html\">Rhododendron Parade<\/a>\u00a0in Eureka. Then on Sunday, April 28 in\u00a0San Francisco,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-francisco-how-weird-festival.html\">How Weird Festival<\/a> is exactly what the name implies&#8211;weird. Get use to it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moon must be in the 7th House this weekend as Jupiter aligns with Mars. There&#8217;s just too much strangeness going on out there but then again, it&#8217;s only California. In the photos left to right: at Petaluma&#8217;s Butter &amp; Eggs Days Parade a funky chicken rides on an antique car&#8211;and people actually cheer! \u00a0Next, [&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\/11881"}],"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=11881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}