{"id":16474,"date":"2014-05-20T00:48:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T07:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16474"},"modified":"2014-05-20T00:48:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T07:48:57","slug":"bishop-mule-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/bishop-mule-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Mule Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Are you stubborn as a mule? If so, there’s a Memorial Weekend festival to fit you. \u00a0Bishop Mule Days<\/a> pays homage to the animal that’s not a horse and not a donkey–that it’s mommy and daddy. A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse, possessing some of the most desirable characteristics of both– endurance and sure-footedness of the donkey, and the vigor, strength and courage of the horse. Intelligent and determined, mules have a reputation for\u00a0being stubborn though testing has found that label\u00a0isn’t\u00a0necessarily true. Mules usually surpass horses, donkeys and even dogs in problem solving.<\/p>\n

In California mules are used to transport cargo in wilderness areas of the Sierra Nevada mountains, where shoulder to shoulder — miner and mule used to breathe the same dust 10 hours a day during the Gold Rush. Today you can watch mules compete in exciting events at the annual Western-themed Mule Days Celebration\u00a0featuring headliner\u00a0acts\u00a0Dave Stamey and Baxter Black. See the full schedule at muledays.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you stubborn as a mule? If so, there’s a Memorial Weekend festival to fit you. \u00a0Bishop Mule Days pays homage to the animal that’s not a horse and not a donkey–that it’s mommy and daddy. A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse, possessing some of the most desirable […]<\/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\/16474"}],"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=16474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}