{"id":15792,"date":"2014-03-19T23:31:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T06:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15792"},"modified":"2014-03-19T23:31:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T06:31:40","slug":"sand-castle-contests-heat-up-california-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/sand-castle-contests-heat-up-california-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand Castle Contests Heat Up California Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sandscu.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s that time of year when you need to start planning your sand sculpture for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/sandcastle-festivals-contests.html\"><strong>sandcastle events<\/strong><\/a> that kick in around June. It&#8217;s a beach thing so if you don&#8217;t live near a beach, you&#8217;re going to have to take a trip.<\/p>\n<p><strong>June 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ALAMEDA: Sand Castle &amp; Sculpture Contest<\/li>\n<li>CARLSBAD: Beach Fest Sand Sculpture Contest<\/li>\n<li>EUREKA: Manila Beach Sandcastle Contest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>July 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SAN CLEMENTE: Ocean Festival Sand Sculpting Contest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>August 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BALBOA ISLAND: Sand Castle Contest<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Great Sand Sculpture Contest<\/li>\n<li>POINT REYES: Sand Sculpting Contest at Drakes Beach<\/li>\n<li>REDONDO BEACH: Surf Festival Sandcastle Contest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>September 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PACIFICA: Fog Fest Sand Sculpture Contest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year when you need to start planning your sand sculpture for\u00a0sandcastle events that kick in around June. It&#8217;s a beach thing so if you don&#8217;t live near a beach, you&#8217;re going to have to take a trip. June 2014 ALAMEDA: Sand Castle &amp; Sculpture Contest CARLSBAD: Beach Fest Sand Sculpture Contest [&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\/15792"}],"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=15792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}