{"id":16915,"date":"2014-07-07T01:37:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T08:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16915"},"modified":"2014-07-07T01:37:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T08:37:24","slug":"cowboys-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/cowboys-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/julyrod.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"648\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Tenth Annual National Day of the Cowboy is Saturday, July 26, 2014. California was one of the first states to endorse and promote a national campaign establishing an annual day paying homage to the West&#8217;s great heritage. This year Amador County Fair (July 24-27, 2014) celebrates National Day of the Cowboy with a professional rodeo featuring skills developed by cowboys on the ranches and trail rides more than 100 years ago, including roping, riding bucking animals, and racing the fastest short-distance horses in the world. The stakes are high and there are plenty of \u00a0risk-takers willing to climb on the back of a wild, bucking bronc!<\/p>\n<p>The weekend ahead offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-rodeos.html\">several rodeos<\/a> celebrating cowboys in action:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LAKEPORT: July 11-12, 2014 Lakeport Rodeo &amp; Parade. lakecountyrodeo.com The 85th Annual Lake County Rodeo takes place at the Lake County Fairground.<\/li>\n<li>ORICK: July 12-13, 2014 Orrick Rodeo &amp; Royalty Parade. orick.net<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tenth Annual National Day of the Cowboy is Saturday, July 26, 2014. California was one of the first states to endorse and promote a national campaign establishing an annual day paying homage to the West&#8217;s great heritage. This year Amador County Fair (July 24-27, 2014) celebrates National Day of the Cowboy with a professional [&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\/16915"}],"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=16915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}