{"id":12734,"date":"2013-06-27T03:27:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T10:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12734"},"modified":"2013-06-27T03:38:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T10:38:13","slug":"secession-days-in-rough-and-ready-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/secession-days-in-rough-and-ready-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Secession Days in Rough and Ready, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/roug.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Secession Days &#8211; Last Sunday in June roughandreadychamber.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rough and Ready, Calif. &#8212;\u00a0\u00a0Secession Days on the last Sunday in June is a fun pre-4th of July celebration with food and entertainment from 7am- 3pm. The day starts with a Pancake Breakfast to raise funds for the Rough and Ready Volunteer Fire Department. The Town Blacksmith fires up the forge in the Blacksmith Shop, and the Fruit Jar Pickers old-time band play their special brand of music. The highlight of the day is the annual musical\/melodrama \u201cThe Saga of Rough and Ready\u201d performed live on stage, depicting the events leading up to the town&#8217;s decision to leave the Union.<\/p>\n<p>On April 7, 1850, the town of Rough and Ready, angered at the lack of law and order, and the passage of a new mining tax, voted to secede from the Union and form the Great Republic of Rough and Ready. The Republic lasted less than 3 months when, the story goes, Nevada City refused to sell the \u00a0foreign miners liquor! The town gathered again and decided to re-join the Union&#8230;just in time for the 4th of July celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secession Days &#8211; Last Sunday in June roughandreadychamber.com Rough and Ready, Calif. &#8212;\u00a0\u00a0Secession Days on the last Sunday in June is a fun pre-4th of July celebration with food and entertainment from 7am- 3pm. The day starts with a Pancake Breakfast to raise funds for the Rough and Ready Volunteer Fire Department. The Town Blacksmith [&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\/12734"}],"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=12734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}