{"id":17051,"date":"2014-07-24T01:59:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T08:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17051"},"modified":"2014-07-24T01:59:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T08:59:21","slug":"weekend-sports-festivals-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/weekend-sports-festivals-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Sports Festivals, Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/vanz.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HUNTINGTON BEACH is gearing up for the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/huntington-beach-usopen-surfing-festival.html\">Vans US Open of Surfing<\/a> July 26-August 3, 2014. Waves are currently 1-2 feet and the weather is a toasty 80-something degrees. The surfing, skate and BMX festival promises to be a family-friendly event returning to its roots as a surf competition first and foremost. The city, event planner and local police have mechanisms in place to avoid a replay of last year&#8217;s riot. Free concerts on the beach have been eliminated, helping to curb\u00a0the crowds that overburdened the city&#8217;s \u00a0infrastructure in 2013. Though many HB hotels are sold out this weekend, there are hotels in Long Beach, Newport Beach and other cities nearby not far from the action!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/july-festivals.html\">Sporting events and festivals this week include:\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BURBANK: \u00a0Downtown Burbank Car Classic,\u00a0July 26, 2014<\/li>\n<li>JAMESTOWN: Rods to Rails, July 26, 2014<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/long-beach-dragon-boat-festival.html\">Long Beach Dragon Boat Festival<\/a>, July 26-27, 2014<\/li>\n<li>MANHATTAN BEACH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/volleyball.html\">FIVB Beach Volleyball Grand Slam<\/a>, July 22-27, 2014<\/li>\n<li>McCLOUD Mt Shasta Ski Park Volcano Mud Run July 26, 2014<\/li>\n<li>PLEASANTON: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/pleasanton-tomato-royale.html\">NorCal Great Bull Run<\/a>\u00a0July 26, 2014<\/li>\n<li>REDONDO BEACH: Hennesseys Paddleboard Festival, July 26, 2014<\/li>\n<li>REDDING: NorCon Wargaming Convention, July 25-27, 2014<\/li>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA: California Paint Horse Association Show,\u00a0July 25 &#8211; 27<\/li>\n<li>SANTA CRUZ: \u00a0Wharf to Wharf Race,\u00a0July 27, 2014<\/li>\n<li>SANTA PAULA:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-paula-citrus-festival.html\"> Citrus Classic Balloon Festival<\/a>, July 25 &#8211; 26, 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUNTINGTON BEACH is gearing up for the annual Vans US Open of Surfing July 26-August 3, 2014. Waves are currently 1-2 feet and the weather is a toasty 80-something degrees. The surfing, skate and BMX festival promises to be a family-friendly event returning to its roots as a surf competition first and foremost. The city, [&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\/17051"}],"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=17051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}