{"id":16663,"date":"2014-06-08T03:23:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T10:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16663"},"modified":"2014-06-08T03:23:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T10:23:01","slug":"watermelon-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/watermelon-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/watermfe.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about BITE &amp; SPIT at watermelon festivals where you\u00a0must either eat your melon the fastest, eat it without using your hands (or feet), or spit out your seeds the longest distance of anybody. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-watermelon-festivals.html\">Three Watermelon Festivals<\/a> taking place this summer in California include Slice of Chico, Watermelon Festival at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and Ribs, Pigs &amp; Watermelon at Bolsa Chica State Beach. \u00a0In addition to these fests, there are watermelon contests at many 4th of July celebrations in municipalities throughout California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s all about BITE &amp; SPIT at watermelon festivals where you\u00a0must either eat your melon the fastest, eat it without using your hands (or feet), or spit out your seeds the longest distance of anybody. \u00a0Three Watermelon Festivals taking place this summer in California include Slice of Chico, Watermelon Festival at the Rose Bowl in [&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\/16663"}],"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=16663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}