{"id":15156,"date":"2014-01-23T22:04:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T06:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15156"},"modified":"2014-01-23T22:04:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T06:04:13","slug":"date-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/date-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Scheherazade and Arabian Nights at National Date Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/schehe.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo:\u00a0Arabian Nights Musical Pageant in Indio, California. Daytime highs: 70s-80s, Nights: jacket weather.<\/p>\n<p>When the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/indio-date-festival.html\">Riverside County Fair &amp; National Date Festival<\/a> opens its gates<strong> February 14 \u2013 23, 2014<\/strong>, Queen Scheherazade will be there, like she is year after year. Does she have a date? She has lots of them in the is food\/fair festival which takes place in one of the best climates for growing dates.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to combining food (date shakes, funnel cakes, BBQ and lemonade,) with thrills such as Camel and Ostrich Races, Demolition Derby, Monster Trucks, Bull-O-Rama and Fiesta del Charro, the performance of award-winning Arabian Nights Musical Pageant makes guests feel as if they&#8217;re in an exotic land.<\/p>\n<p>Why doesn&#8217;t Queen Scheherazade ever age? Each year a new queen and her court are selected, eager to learn the ropes, fulfill the duties and participate in performance schedules during the hand-picked &#8220;dates&#8221;. Though the fair is now in its 68th year, it&#8217;s fresh, exciting and never exactly the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo:\u00a0Arabian Nights Musical Pageant in Indio, California. Daytime highs: 70s-80s, Nights: jacket weather. When the Riverside County Fair &amp; National Date Festival opens its gates February 14 \u2013 23, 2014, Queen Scheherazade will be there, like she is year after year. Does she have a date? She has lots of them in the is food\/fair [&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\/15156"}],"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=15156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}