{"id":16270,"date":"2014-04-30T02:34:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T09:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16270"},"modified":"2014-04-30T02:34:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T09:34:44","slug":"mariposa-butterfly-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/mariposa-butterfly-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariposa Butterfly Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Festivals abound during the first weekend in May. Among the small town favorites is the Mariposa Butterfly Festival<\/a>, which includes costumes, a butterfly hat contest, and a delightful parade. If you weren’t aware, there’s special significance in the Gold Rush era city’s name, Mariposa. Translated, it means “butterfly”. Why are butterflies so celebrated? They represent the\u00a0beauty\u00a0and whimsical nature that people long for in their lives. Butterflies don’t live long but they provide such a gift during\u00a0their short time on the planet. \u00a0If you get a chance to visit Mariposa, the city steeped in history\u00a0is a gateway to Yosemite National Park. It’s a fun place to explore on your way to see Half Dome\u00a0and spectacular\u00a0waterfalls.<\/p>\n

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Festivals abound during the first weekend in May. Among the small town favorites is the Mariposa Butterfly Festival, which includes costumes, a butterfly hat contest, and a delightful parade. If you weren’t aware, there’s special significance in the Gold Rush era city’s name, Mariposa. Translated, it means “butterfly”. Why are butterflies so celebrated? They represent […]<\/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\/16270"}],"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=16270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}