{"id":14965,"date":"2014-01-06T00:33:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T08:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14965"},"modified":"2014-01-06T00:33:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T08:33:38","slug":"california-hat-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-hat-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Big, Bodacious, Beautiful Hats are Back at California Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/hadfest.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos:Union Street Spring Celebration (left) and Clovis Big Hat Days (right)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Vallejo&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span>Mad Hatter Festival &amp; Parade ended in December, but there&#8217;s a whole new crop of bonnets, berets\u00a0and caps planned for festivals this Spring 2014. From Mariposa&#8217;s Butterfly Days hat contest to Clovis Big Hat Days and San Francisco&#8217;s Union Street Spring Celebration &amp; Easter Bonnet Parade, this year the hats are expected to be bigger, fancier or more outrageous than ever before! In Clovis you see the craziest things for Big Hat Days&#8211;including an entire city scene in miniature on top of someone&#8217;s &#8220;block&#8221;. At Mariposa&#8217;s Butterfly Days Hat Contest it&#8217;s not just girls who decorate. Guys also wear butterflies&#8211;on their ball caps! \u00a0In San Francisco for the Easter Parade you&#8217;ll see &#8220;spring chickens&#8221; wearing hats containing baskets filled with eggs. It&#8217;s absolutely crazy!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>California Hat Festivals \u00a0and Contests 2014<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>April 5 &amp; 6, 2014 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/clovis-big-hat-days.html\">Clovis Big Hat Days<\/a><\/li>\n<li>April 20, 2014 &#8211; San Francisco Union Street&#8217;s 23rd<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-francisco-easter-parade-festival.html\"> Annual Spring Celebration &amp; Easter Parade<\/a><\/li>\n<li>May 2-4, 2014 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/mariposa-butterfly-parade.html\">Mariposa Butterfly Festival<\/a> Hat Contest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos:Union Street Spring Celebration (left) and Clovis Big Hat Days (right) Vallejo&#8217;s\u00a0Mad Hatter Festival &amp; Parade ended in December, but there&#8217;s a whole new crop of bonnets, berets\u00a0and caps planned for festivals this Spring 2014. From Mariposa&#8217;s Butterfly Days hat contest to Clovis Big Hat Days and San Francisco&#8217;s Union Street Spring Celebration &amp; Easter [&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\/14965"}],"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=14965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}