{"id":17515,"date":"2014-09-16T22:35:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T05:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17515"},"modified":"2014-09-16T22:35:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T05:35:29","slug":"cool-down-with-lemonade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/cool-down-with-lemonade\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Down with Lemonade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/goleman.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It can be hard\u00a0to accept life&#8217;s punches thrown our way. But lemons (and lemon punch) offer the perfect lesson in the necessity of things that may not be wanted or pleasant. You&#8217;ve heard the saying, &#8220;When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!&#8221; As\u00a0Californians cook with extreme heat\u00a0a\u00a0cold glass of lemonade is a real thirst-quencher. Without the HEAT\u00a0you wouldn&#8217;t appreciate the COLD\u00a0drink quite so much. And lemonade, itself, is the transformation of\u00a0something unbearably\u00a0SOUR\u00a0into a SWEET\u00a0beverage. This weekend thousands of gallons of lemonade will be served at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/goleta-lemon-festival.html\">Goleta Lemon Festival<\/a>, which\u00a0celebrates the bright yellow fruit seen in orchards along Highway 101 on the Central Coast. The free event with free parking features lemon pie eating contest, lemon cotton candy, lemon flavored beverages and foods, a car show,\u00a0and\u00a0\u00a0plenty of shady spots in Girsh Park to\u00a0stay\u00a0cool.<\/p>\n<p>CALIFORNIA LEMON CROP\u00a02013 &#8211; 2014\u00a0forecast is\u00a040.0 million cartons (800,000 tons), down 5% from last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be hard\u00a0to accept life&#8217;s punches thrown our way. But lemons (and lemon punch) offer the perfect lesson in the necessity of things that may not be wanted or pleasant. You&#8217;ve heard the saying, &#8220;When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!&#8221; As\u00a0Californians cook with extreme heat\u00a0a\u00a0cold glass of lemonade is a real thirst-quencher. Without [&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\/17515"}],"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=17515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}