{"id":16111,"date":"2014-04-17T22:46:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T05:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16111"},"modified":"2014-04-17T22:46:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T05:46:29","slug":"olvera-street-blessing-of-the-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/olvera-street-blessing-of-the-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Olvera Street Blessing of the Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bless3.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PEOPLE BLESS MANY THINGS, BUT IN CALIFORNIA THE FAVORITE BLESSINGS ARE THE WINE GRAPES &amp; PETS<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday,\u00a0April 19, 2014, \u00a0from Noon to 5 p.m., the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-animal-blessings.html\">Blessing of the Animals<\/a> on Olvera Street takes place. Thousands come to the full day event which is a festival of people and animals &#8212; roosters, chickens, iguanas, geckos, dogs, birds, fish in bowls, llamas, snakes, lizards, bugs, rats\u00a0and\u00a0cats. Archbishop Jose Gomez gives the\u00a0blessings at this annual celebration which began in 1930. Location: 125 Paseo de la Plaza, Los Angeles, CA. \u00a0See: \u00a0lacity.org<\/p>\n<p><strong>CALIFORNIA IS BLESSED !\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Portola Valley church, Interfaith Power &amp; Light, blessed their solar panel installation<\/li>\n<li>Native American in Riverside blessed tobacco<\/li>\n<li>Dozens of vintners in Napa, Sonoma, Anderson Valley and Temecula bless wine grapes and wines<\/li>\n<li>San Jose Harley Davidson holds a bike blessing ceremony (Apr. 19, 2014)<\/li>\n<li>Bodega Bay, Trinidad, San Francisco &amp; Morro Bay bless the fleet<\/li>\n<li>Sonoma blesses olives<\/li>\n<li>Californians bless the troops<\/li>\n<li>Hornitos blesses its cemetery on All Souls Day<\/li>\n<li>Huntington Beach blesses the waves<\/li>\n<li>Tibetan Buddhist monks from India blessed Gualala River<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEOPLE BLESS MANY THINGS, BUT IN CALIFORNIA THE FAVORITE BLESSINGS ARE THE WINE GRAPES &amp; PETS On Saturday,\u00a0April 19, 2014, \u00a0from Noon to 5 p.m., the annual Blessing of the Animals on Olvera Street takes place. Thousands come to the full day event which is a festival of people and animals &#8212; roosters, chickens, iguanas, [&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\/16111"}],"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=16111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}