{"id":16937,"date":"2014-07-09T02:26:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T09:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16937"},"modified":"2014-07-09T02:26:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T09:26:06","slug":"california-celebrates-bastille-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-celebrates-bastille-day\/","title":{"rendered":"California Celebrates Bastille Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/frenchfe.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured is the annual French Festival in Santa Barbara, which includes the famous Poodle Parade.<\/p>\n<p>Bastille Day is like America&#8217;s 4th of July. It is a national holiday in\u00a0France on July 14, celebrating the French Revolution which challenged the corruption of the aristocratic government controlled mostly by nobility and clergy in 1789. Fete de la Federation (National Day) includes fireworks, parades, parties, food and patriotic events similar to those celebrated in the U.S. on Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p>More than 9 million French descendants and immigrants live in the U.S with the majority living in California. Inspired by breathtaking surroundings, \u00a0Santa Barbara is actually called the French Riviera\u00a0of the U.S.\u00a0It is also home to\u00a0the state&#8217;s longest running &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-barbara-french-festival.html\">biggest\u00a0French festival<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0taking place on July 12-13, 2014. Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-french-festivals.html\">some ways to celebrate Bastille Day in California<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured is the annual French Festival in Santa Barbara, which includes the famous Poodle Parade. Bastille Day is like America&#8217;s 4th of July. It is a national holiday in\u00a0France on July 14, celebrating the French Revolution which challenged the corruption of the aristocratic government controlled mostly by nobility and clergy in 1789. Fete de la [&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\/16937"}],"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=16937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}