{"id":16504,"date":"2014-05-23T00:25:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T07:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16504"},"modified":"2014-05-23T00:30:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T07:30:04","slug":"modesto-american-graffiti-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/modesto-american-graffiti-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Modesto American Graffiti Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/amgraf.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>George Lucas road in Modesto&#8217;s American Graffiti parade in June 2013, returning to\u00a0his birthplace\u00a0that inspired his love of cars\u00a0and\u00a0a highly-successful film\u00a0which has become\u00a0the theme of the\u00a0annual\u00a0American Graffiti Festival (americangraffitifestival.com)\u00a0held June 6-8, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas was born and raised in the City of Modesto, graduating from Thomas Downey High School in 1962. He co-wrote and directed one of the top-100 movies of all time\u00a0with a nostalgic look back at cars, music and teenage years inspired by\u00a0Modesto events. Modesto commemorates the movie with an annual film showing, car show and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/modesto-american-graffiti.html\">more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Note: Outdoor scenes in\u00a0American Graffiti (1973) were filmed in Petaluma, which celebrated with a festival last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Lucas road in Modesto&#8217;s American Graffiti parade in June 2013, returning to\u00a0his birthplace\u00a0that inspired his love of cars\u00a0and\u00a0a highly-successful film\u00a0which has become\u00a0the theme of the\u00a0annual\u00a0American Graffiti Festival (americangraffitifestival.com)\u00a0held June 6-8, 2014. Lucas was born and raised in the City of Modesto, graduating from Thomas Downey High School in 1962. He co-wrote and directed one [&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\/16504"}],"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=16504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}