{"id":16578,"date":"2014-05-30T02:49:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T09:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16578"},"modified":"2014-05-30T02:50:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T09:50:17","slug":"cowboys-cowgirls-and-santa-maria-rodeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/cowboys-cowgirls-and-santa-maria-rodeo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys, Cowgirls and Santa Maria Rodeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cowdeo.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This weekend\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-maria-eilks-parade-rodeo.html\">Santa Maria\u00a0the\u00a0Elks Rodeo<\/a> celebrates its 66th year with annual traditions such as\u00a0Beard-a-Reno contest for cowboys\u00a0and the big Saturday Elks Rodeo Parade on Broadway. \u00a0Chicks &amp; Chaps\u00a0brings cowgirls\u00a0together\u00a0to rope, ride, and have a great country time, all while raising money for breast cancer fighters and survivors. \u00a0The four\u00a0day rodeo on the first weekend in June launches with a kids mini rodeo in which 7,000 to 10,000 flag-waving grade school students arrive by bus to watch dazzling performances (such as a cowboy riding his horse through a ring of fire.) On the dusty trail of life, if you miss the Santa Maria&#8217;s favorite annual event\u00a0there are many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-rodeos.html\">more rodeos to see in upcoming months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend\u00a0Santa Maria\u00a0the\u00a0Elks Rodeo celebrates its 66th year with annual traditions such as\u00a0Beard-a-Reno contest for cowboys\u00a0and the big Saturday Elks Rodeo Parade on Broadway. \u00a0Chicks &amp; Chaps\u00a0brings cowgirls\u00a0together\u00a0to rope, ride, and have a great country time, all while raising money for breast cancer fighters and survivors. \u00a0The four\u00a0day rodeo on the first weekend in June [&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\/16578"}],"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=16578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}