{"id":15177,"date":"2014-01-24T01:58:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T09:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15177"},"modified":"2014-01-24T01:59:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T09:59:36","slug":"weekend-events-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/weekend-events-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Events: San Diego, Monterey Launch Whale Festival Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/watwha.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"321\" alt=\"img\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><br \/>\nBig Bay Whale Days in San Diego on Jan. 25, 2014, and Whalefest Monterey \u00a0Jan. 25 &amp; 26 are the start of something big&#8211;the annual launch of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-whale-festivals.html\">whale festival season<\/a>.\u00a0This year and the end of last year saw the biggest amount of whale sightings off the California coast in decades. More types of whales are being seen, as well. <\/p>\n<p>For<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-events.html\"> other weekend events throughout the state<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DEL MAR: Winter Home Decorating Show or Cat Fanciers All Breed Show, both at the Fairgrounds<\/li>\n<li>EL DORADO: Epicuran dining event, Gold Discovery Day<\/li>\n<li>HOLTVILLE: Rib Cookoff<\/li>\n<li>INDIO: Southwest Arts Festival<\/li>\n<li>LA QUINTA: Car Show<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: GALLA Shopping Extravaganza at L.A. Mart, LMU Wine Classic, Downtown Flea<\/li>\n<li>MENDOCINO: Crab, Wine &amp; Beer Days<\/li>\n<li>NEVADA CITY: Chocolate Infusion<\/li>\n<li>RIVERSIDE: Asian Pacific Lunar New Year&#8217;s Festival<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO: Northern California Home &amp; Landscape Expo<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: Zinfandel Festival, Chinese New Year Flower Market<\/li>\n<li>SAN RAFAEL: Gem Fair<\/li>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA: Antiques and Vintage Arts Show &amp; Sale<\/li>\n<li>SANTA CLARITA: Street Fair<\/li>\n<li>SANTA CRUZ: Monarch Butterfly Tour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Bay Whale Days in San Diego on Jan. 25, 2014, and Whalefest Monterey \u00a0Jan. 25 &amp; 26 are the start of something big&#8211;the annual launch of\u00a0whale festival season.\u00a0This year and the end of last year saw the biggest amount of whale sightings off the California coast in decades. More types of whales are being [&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\/15177"}],"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=15177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}