{"id":16820,"date":"2014-06-25T16:04:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T23:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16820"},"modified":"2014-06-25T16:04:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T23:04:25","slug":"get-serious-at-surf-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/get-serious-at-surf-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Serious at Surf Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/dohesur.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you see a toddler riding a surfboard while sucking on a\u00a0baby bottle, don&#8217;t be alarmed. It is just the surf culture, and it&#8217;s a crack up! \u00a0From a guy reading his newspaper in a lawn chair (while riding a surfboard,) to a pretty girl in a bikini and Stetson hat heading out for a wave, you never know what you&#8217;ll see or what to expect. \u00a0 Two of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-surf-festivals.html\">California&#8217;s\u00a0funniest surf fests<\/a> this season take place at \u00a0Dana Point&#8217;s Doheny Beach (Doheny Surf Festival,) and Ventura&#8217;s Pierpont Beach\u00a0(Surf Rodeo.) At Surf Rodeo the mission is clear: &#8220;We have sat back and watched the world of surfing transform into a highly competitive, cut-throat, serious atmosphere, but now we feel it\u2019s time to giddy up and ride the wave back to our roots. Community and camaraderie are at the core of the Surf Rodeo.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you see a toddler riding a surfboard while sucking on a\u00a0baby bottle, don&#8217;t be alarmed. It is just the surf culture, and it&#8217;s a crack up! \u00a0From a guy reading his newspaper in a lawn chair (while riding a surfboard,) to a pretty girl in a bikini and Stetson hat heading out for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/16820"}],"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=16820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}