{"id":13956,"date":"2013-10-09T02:45:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T09:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13956"},"modified":"2013-10-09T02:53:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T09:53:18","slug":"artichoke-is-now-california-state-vegetable-no-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/artichoke-is-now-california-state-vegetable-no-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Artichoke is Now California State Vegetable, No Joke!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/giantart.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom said recently that the artichoke is now the official state vegetable of California, a decision that was based on social media votes. California grows\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/artichokes.html\">100% of the U.S. artichoke crop<\/a>, and of course, we celebrate the gourmet food with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/castroville-artichoke-festival.html\">Artichoke Festival<\/a> each year in Castroville. \u00a0Other foods nominated for official state veggie status included almonds and avocados. Official California &#8220;things&#8221; include the state flower (poppy), state dance (Western Swing)&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california\/california-information.html\">.read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom said recently that the artichoke is now the official state vegetable of California, a decision that was based on social media votes. California grows\u00a0100% of the U.S. artichoke crop, and of course, we celebrate the gourmet food with the Artichoke Festival each year in Castroville. \u00a0Other foods nominated for official [&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\/13956"}],"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=13956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}