{"id":15379,"date":"2014-02-11T00:02:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T08:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15379"},"modified":"2014-02-11T00:58:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T08:58:46","slug":"30-gem-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/30-gem-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Gem Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/mingem.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to minerals and gems, California&#8217;s big. There are over 30 festivals, fairs, shows and expos in 2014 featuring gemstones, stones &amp; minerals, rocks, jewelry, beads, rings, necklaces, spheres, sculptures and more. The beauty of these events is that they&#8217;re often free or fairly cheap to attend, and you can just look, or buy great products with access to many jewelers and lapidaries in one location.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-gem-minerals.html\"><strong>2014 Gem &amp; Minerals Fairs, Festivals and Shows\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>February<\/strong>: \u00a0Indio, Newark, Santa Barbara and Costa Mesa<\/li>\n<li><strong>March:<\/strong>\u00a0Ventura, Monrovia, Pleasanton, San Marino, Spreckels, Turlock, Del Mar, Lemoore, Vallejo, Angels Camp, Roseville, Torrance<\/li>\n<li><strong>April:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Eureka, Paradise, San Jose, Mariposa, Santa Cruz, Thousand Oaks<\/li>\n<li><strong>May:\u00a0<\/strong>Bishop, Anaheim, Paso Robles, Yucaipa, Pomona, Escondido<\/li>\n<li><strong>June:<\/strong>\u00a0 La Habra, Cayucos, Culver City<\/li>\n<li><strong>July<\/strong>: TBA<\/li>\n<li><strong>August<\/strong>: San Francisco<\/li>\n<li><strong>September<\/strong>: Santa Rosa<\/li>\n<li><strong>October<\/strong>: Trona<\/li>\n<li><strong>November<\/strong>: Concord, Santa Ana<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to minerals and gems, California&#8217;s big. There are over 30 festivals, fairs, shows and expos in 2014 featuring gemstones, stones &amp; minerals, rocks, jewelry, beads, rings, necklaces, spheres, sculptures and more. The beauty of these events is that they&#8217;re often free or fairly cheap to attend, and you can just look, or [&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\/15379"}],"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=15379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}