{"id":12209,"date":"2013-05-17T02:55:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T09:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12209"},"modified":"2013-05-17T02:55:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T09:55:19","slug":"a-bunch-of-roses-and-parades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/a-bunch-of-roses-and-parades\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bunch of Roses and Parades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/luthbur.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you love a parade, this weekend California has some! \u00a0In the heart of Napa-Sonoma wine country the city of Santa Rosa is having a Surf&#8217;N Safari Rose Parade celebrating one of several hometown heros, horticulturist Luther Burbank and his famous roses. Another hometown hero you may also see represented at the annual flower parade is Charles Schulz, creator of Snoopy, Woodstock, Charlie Brown, and many cartoon characters. Several museums in Santa Rosa honoring these famous citizens include Luther Burbank Museum and Charles Schulz Museum. \u00a0You can visit nearly any time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-events.html\">weekend parades:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">SANTA ROSA \u00a0Luther Burbank Rose Parade &amp; Festival,\u00a0roseparadefestival.com<\/span><\/li>\n<li>ORANGEVALE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/orangevale-pow-wow-days.html\">Pow Wow Days<\/a> Festival &amp; Parade<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/long-beach-pride-festival.html\">Gay Pride Festival &amp; Parade<\/a> \u00a0(LGBT &#8211; Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender)<\/li>\n<li>TORRANCE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/torrance-armed-forces-festival.html\">Armed Forces Day Parade<\/a><\/li>\n<li>COULTERVILLE Coyote Howl Parade<\/li>\n<li>LOS ALTOS \u00a0Kiwanis Pet Parade<\/li>\n<li>SAN CARLOS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-carlos-hometown-days.html\">Hometown Days<\/a> Festival &amp; Parade<\/li>\n<li>KINGSBURG <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/kingsburg-swedish-festival.html\">Swedish Festival Parade<\/a><\/li>\n<li>CASTROVILLE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/castroville-artichoke-festival.html\">Artichoke Festival Parade<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you love a parade, this weekend California has some! \u00a0In the heart of Napa-Sonoma wine country the city of Santa Rosa is having a Surf&#8217;N Safari Rose Parade celebrating one of several hometown heros, horticulturist Luther Burbank and his famous roses. Another hometown hero you may also see represented at the annual flower parade [&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\/12209"}],"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=12209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}