{"id":14051,"date":"2013-10-19T01:33:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T08:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14051"},"modified":"2013-10-19T01:33:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T08:33:01","slug":"olive-festival-at-paicines-ranch-a-country-escape-in-san-benito-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/olive-festival-at-paicines-ranch-a-country-escape-in-san-benito-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Olive Festival at Paicines Ranch, a Country Escape in San Benito County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/benitov.jpg\" width=\"920\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PAICINCES, CALIF.&#8211;Photos show beautiful Paicines Ranch which hosts the\u00a0\u00a0gourmet celebration, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-olive-festivals.html\">San Benito Olive Festival<\/a>, this Saturday, October 19, 2013. \u00a0While most of us will miss the event, that&#8217;s no reason to miss seeing and staying at the ranch with its six cottages for accommodations, an event center for weddings, corporate events, family reunions, classes &amp; workshops. \u00a0The 57 acre working ranch where cattle and lambs are raised for pastured meat, \u00a0also includes a horse ranch.<\/p>\n<p>Restored historic buildings dating from the 1860&#8217;s are surrounded by Shona sculptures from Zimbabwe and a commissioned wind sculptor by Susan Pascal-Beran. More beautiful than any sculpture, however, are the red-tailed hawks, golden eagles and songbirds guests delight in watching on the grounds. Other wildlife include white-tailed deer, coyotes, and wild turkeys. If you&#8217;re looking for a place to relax and get away from the city, head for this treasured slice of country life 30 miles south of Gilroy, home of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/gilroy-garlic-festival.html\">Garlic Festival<\/a>! \u00a0 See:\u00a0paicinesranch.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAICINCES, CALIF.&#8211;Photos show beautiful Paicines Ranch which hosts the\u00a0\u00a0gourmet celebration, San Benito Olive Festival, this Saturday, October 19, 2013. \u00a0While most of us will miss the event, that&#8217;s no reason to miss seeing and staying at the ranch with its six cottages for accommodations, an event center for weddings, corporate events, family reunions, classes &amp; [&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\/14051"}],"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=14051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}