{"id":15363,"date":"2014-02-09T23:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15363"},"modified":"2014-02-09T23:00:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T07:00:42","slug":"california-migration-return-of-swallows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-migration-return-of-swallows\/","title":{"rendered":"California Migration: Return of Swallows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sjcswall.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The upcoming &#8220;Return of the Swallows&#8221; at Mission San Juan Capistrano is a localized spin on the annual \u00a0St. Joseph&#8217;s Day. On March 19\u00a0this\u00a0Christian holiday\u00a0is equally loved but uniquely celebrated from coast to coast.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a comparison of two events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>San Juan Capistrano<\/strong>: At the daytime event held at Mission San Juan Capistrano\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-juan-capistrano-return-of-swallows.html\">children dressed in swallow outfits<\/a> parade around the mission to celebrate the annual migration and return of the swallows to their nesting grounds. Mariachis perform Spanish guitar music, the famed Mission Bells ring, and there&#8217;s a recitation of &#8220;Return of the Swallows&#8221; story.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Orleans<\/strong>: The annual St. Joseph&#8217;s day parade in the French Quarter sponsored by American Italian Marching Club begins with evening food, wine and Italian music followed by marchers dressed in black tuxedos parading until dark.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming &#8220;Return of the Swallows&#8221; at Mission San Juan Capistrano is a localized spin on the annual \u00a0St. Joseph&#8217;s Day. On March 19\u00a0this\u00a0Christian holiday\u00a0is equally loved but uniquely celebrated from coast to coast. Here&#8217;s a comparison of two events: San Juan Capistrano: At the daytime event held at Mission San Juan Capistrano\u00a0children dressed in [&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\/15363"}],"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=15363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}