{"id":13375,"date":"2013-08-19T04:13:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T11:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13375"},"modified":"2013-08-19T04:13:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T11:13:58","slug":"long-beach-bbq-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/long-beach-bbq-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Chomp, Chomp, Lick, Lick&#8211;Long Beach BBQ Festival Sizzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bqfes3.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach, CA\u2014First, you see the smoke, lots of it, billowing thick near Rainbow Lagoon. Then you hear Zydeco music and spot people \u201cdancing their hearts out\u201d in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>Next, as you get closer, you pick up a whiff, which becomes a pleasurable, constant aroma from BBQ ribs, loads of them, being hickory-smoked by some the nation\u2019s top chefs.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, you see several long lines of happy people patiently waiting, joyfully anticipating their sumptuous meals of ribs, chicken, brisket, pork, beans\u2026. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/long-beach-bbq-festival.html\">read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald Long Beach, CA\u2014First, you see the smoke, lots of it, billowing thick near Rainbow Lagoon. Then you hear Zydeco music and spot people \u201cdancing their hearts out\u201d in the distance. Next, as you get closer, you pick up a whiff, which becomes a pleasurable, constant aroma from BBQ ribs, loads of them, [&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\/13375"}],"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=13375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}