{"id":17333,"date":"2014-08-26T02:27:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T09:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17333"},"modified":"2014-08-26T02:27:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T09:27:05","slug":"holy-cow-4-greek-fests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/holy-cow-4-greek-fests\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Cow! 4 Greek Fests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/gekfoo.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So you think you can eat? Why don&#8217;t you find out this weekend when not\u00a0one, not two, not three, but four Greek festivals open their doors so you can say &#8220;OPA!&#8221; \u00a0If you&#8217;ve never been to a Greek festival,\u00a0once you attend, it will spoil you. That meal you buy at a Greek restaurant is missing the key ingredient\u00a0behind the popular Labor Day Weekend cultural\u00a0events&#8211;LOVE. The whole church pitches in and\u00a0volunteers to cook, clean up the mess, and\u00a0even\u00a0dance for visiting guests. The earnings from a Greek festival help fund a parish&#8217;s projects&#8211;that&#8217;s one reason why\u00a0volunteers put their hearts &amp; souls into it. Another reason&#8211; they&#8217;re Greek, and Greeks are passionate about great food, drinks, and dance. Attending a Greek festival is like being at someone&#8217;s warm &amp; welcoming home.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/food-festivals-greek.html\">GREEK FESTIVALS ON LABOR DAY WEEKEND<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>BELMONT Greek Festival<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH Greek Festival<\/li>\n<li>MONTEREY Greek Festival<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO Greek Festival<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you think you can eat? Why don&#8217;t you find out this weekend when not\u00a0one, not two, not three, but four Greek festivals open their doors so you can say &#8220;OPA!&#8221; \u00a0If you&#8217;ve never been to a Greek festival,\u00a0once you attend, it will spoil you. That meal you buy at a Greek restaurant is missing [&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\/17333"}],"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=17333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}