{"id":17610,"date":"2014-09-28T03:31:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T10:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17610"},"modified":"2014-09-28T03:31:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T10:31:54","slug":"bless-the-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/bless-the-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Bless the Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/peblesin.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you happen to pass by Pasadena&#8217;s All Saints Church or San Mateo&#8217;s Peninsula MCC today you may notice something out of the ordinary. On Sept. 28 these two worship centers are blessing pets&#8211;all kinds of them. Pigs, rats, cats, llamas, horses, snakes, lizards, frogs, dogs and even polliwogs are welcomed with open arms and given a blessing in honor of St. Francis of Assisi. The patron saint of animals is officially honored on October 4 each year, but animal blessings have become such a popular attraction that ceremonies to\u00a0bless them\u00a0occur\u00a0days and even weeks before and after October 4. \u00a0And California&#8217;s biggest and oldest blessing\u00a0 tradition,\u00a0Olvera Street Blessing of the Animals, takes place the Saturday before Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-animal-blessings.html\">Here are a few cities and locations where you can take your pet to be blessed:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS on October 4, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beverly Hills<\/li>\n<li>Bonita<\/li>\n<li>Danville<\/li>\n<li>Lincoln<\/li>\n<li>Oceanside<\/li>\n<li>Sacramento<\/li>\n<li>San Bernardino<\/li>\n<li>San Rafael<\/li>\n<li>Santa Barbara<\/li>\n<li>Woodland Hills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS on October 5, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Novato<\/li>\n<li>Paradise<\/li>\n<li>Roseville<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco<\/li>\n<li>Santa Monica<\/li>\n<li>Santa Rosa<\/li>\n<li>Saratoga<\/li>\n<li>Thousand Oaks<\/li>\n<li>Windsor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to pass by Pasadena&#8217;s All Saints Church or San Mateo&#8217;s Peninsula MCC today you may notice something out of the ordinary. On Sept. 28 these two worship centers are blessing pets&#8211;all kinds of them. Pigs, rats, cats, llamas, horses, snakes, lizards, frogs, dogs and even polliwogs are welcomed with open arms and [&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\/17610"}],"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=17610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}