{"id":13256,"date":"2013-08-08T04:04:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13256"},"modified":"2013-08-08T10:53:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T17:53:30","slug":"california-weekend-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-weekend-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"California Weekend Warriors Out in Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/wzen.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No need to sit at home and let the grass grow under your feet this weekend.. there are a handful of county fairs, many food festivals and events, wine fests, dozens of free summer concerts and just about anything your heart desires. Don&#8217;t forget that the horses, dragons,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/dogs\/california-dachshund-races.html\"> dachshunds<\/a> and pigs are racing. \u00a0Go!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/california-fairs-list.html\"><strong>COUNTY FAIRS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>COSTA MESA: Orange County Fair July 12 &#8211; August 11, 2013 ocfair.com<br \/>\nGRASS VALLEY: Nevada County Fair, August 7-11, 2013 \u00a0Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley, CA<br \/>\nNAPA: Napa Town and Country Fair, August 7-11, 2013 \u00a0Fairgrounds, Napa, CA<br \/>\nSANTA ROSA: Sonoma County Fair July 25 &#8211; Aug 11, 2013 (closed Mondays). The 2013 Fair theme is &#8220;Home Spun Fun&#8221;! sonomacountyfair.com<br \/>\nYREKA: Siskiyou Golden Fair Aug 7-11, 2013 sisqfair.com<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/weekend-just-around-the-bend\/\">FESTIVALS\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eat apples, lemons, bananas, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-tomato-festivals.html\">tomatoes<\/a> and lobster! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/sandcastle-festivals-contests.html\">Build sand castles<\/a>\u00a0in Long Beach, \u00a0take kids to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/sports\/fishing\/kids-fishing-derbies.html\"> fishing derby<\/a> on Crystal Pier in San Diego, watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/boats\/california-dragon-boat-racing.html\">Dragon Boat races<\/a> in Oakland, \u00a0go to a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-doll-shows.html\"> Doll &amp; Teddy Bear Show<\/a>, or see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/shakespeare\/shakespeare-by-the-sea.html\">Shakespeare by the Sea<\/a> in San Pedro this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/concerts\/california-summer-concerts.html\">FREE SUMMER CONCERTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Highlights include WAR in Santa Cruz on Friday Night (Aug 9, 2013) and The Tubes in Los Angeles (Aug 10)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/food-festivals-august.html\"><strong>WINE &amp; FOOD EVENTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Include Paso Robles, San Rafael and Scotts Valley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No need to sit at home and let the grass grow under your feet this weekend.. there are a handful of county fairs, many food festivals and events, wine fests, dozens of free summer concerts and just about anything your heart desires. Don&#8217;t forget that the horses, dragons, dachshunds and pigs are racing. \u00a0Go! COUNTY [&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\/13256"}],"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=13256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}