{"id":17447,"date":"2014-09-10T01:58:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T08:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17447"},"modified":"2014-09-10T01:58:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T08:58:05","slug":"wish-they-all-could-be-california-shot-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wish-they-all-could-be-california-shot-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Wish they all could be California Shot Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/shotgirl.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week several of the\u00a0biggest Oktoberfest events launch their month+ season of revelry,\u00a0unveiling a\u00a0new crop of shot girls. Left to right are Oktoberfest maidens in dirndls from Alpine Village Oktoberfest in Torrance, Old World Village in Huntington Beach &#8211; (2) middle pictures, and Carmel Oktoberfest.<\/p>\n<p>The largest Oktoberfest festivals take place in Torrance, Huntington Beach, Big Bear Lake and Anaheim, where visitors can celebrate nearly two months of German culture through music, dance, food and drinks. The shot girls, however, come straight from California. In Huntington Beach each year there are\u00a0shot girl tryouts with two days of \u00a0beauty contests and a panel of judges. The pay-off can mean big tips for the winners, as their new job usually involves selling liquor\u00a0that comes in little test-tube vials for around $6 a pop.\u00a0Jagermeister, Apple Vodka and other sweet liqueurs are quite popular on Friday and Saturday nights\u00a0when singles are on the prowl, out to have a good time.<\/p>\n<p>Where to celebrate Oktoberfest this weekend, September 13-14, 2014<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/oktoberfest-torrance.html\">Alpine Village<\/a>\u00a0Torrance<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/oktoberfest-huntington-beach.html\">Old World Village<\/a> Huntington Beach<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/oktoberfest-big-bear-lake.html\">Big Bear Lake Oktoberfest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/oktoberfest-carmel.html\">Carmel by the Sea\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week several of the\u00a0biggest Oktoberfest events launch their month+ season of revelry,\u00a0unveiling a\u00a0new crop of shot girls. Left to right are Oktoberfest maidens in dirndls from Alpine Village Oktoberfest in Torrance, Old World Village in Huntington Beach &#8211; (2) middle pictures, and Carmel Oktoberfest. The largest Oktoberfest festivals take place in Torrance, Huntington Beach, [&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\/17447"}],"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=17447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}