{"id":15489,"date":"2014-02-19T22:27:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T06:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15489"},"modified":"2014-02-19T22:27:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T06:27:57","slug":"tattoo-shows-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/tattoo-shows-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Tattoo Shows, Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/tatink2.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Your mama warned you that you were going to look like a freak if you got that tattoo. And now your nightmare has come true! Welcome to the wild, wacky and colorful world of tattoo ink &amp; art. The National Tattoo Association will mix, mingle and discuss the latest topics and trends \u00a0when they meet in Garden Grove this April at their annual convention. Don&#8217;t expect to see tattoo pop-up shops at nearby Disneyland, though many artists and industry leaders will head to the theme park for inspiration (Disney&#8217;s known for its imagineering!)<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the mega-meeting of tattoo shakers &amp; movers, there are 12 big expos, shows and festivals in which the public can see art, get a new tattoo and sometimes listen to music. \u00a0Standout musical events include the annual Santa Rosa Tattoos &amp; Blues Expo, Costa Mesa Musink and Long Beach Ink N Iron. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-tattoo-festivals.html\"><strong>2014 Tattoo Festival List<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your mama warned you that you were going to look like a freak if you got that tattoo. And now your nightmare has come true! Welcome to the wild, wacky and colorful world of tattoo ink &amp; art. The National Tattoo Association will mix, mingle and discuss the latest topics and trends \u00a0when they meet [&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\/15489"}],"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=15489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}