{"id":17625,"date":"2014-10-01T01:41:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T08:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17625"},"modified":"2014-10-01T01:50:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T08:50:10","slug":"cowboys-are-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/cowboys-are-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys Are Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cowbee.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While country music and Western wear go in and out of style in pop culture,\u00a0the rest of the world clamors for authentic Old West experiences they&#8217;ve seen in movies and come to California to witness first hand. More than just fashion, fantasy or fad&#8211;cowboy\u00a0culture\u00a0is an\u00a0authentic element of our\u00a0history\u00a0and\u00a0our roots.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout California there are many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-cowboy-festivals.html\">Old West attractions and events<\/a> with October and November offering some of our favorites. Starting this weekend, the Black Cowboy Parade and Festival (left photo) takes place in Oakland on Oct. 4. \u00a0There&#8217;s also Mojave Trail Days featuring\u00a0former Cirque du Soleil trick roper Will Roberts (right photo). \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/cowboys-are-cool.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While country music and Western wear go in and out of style in pop culture,\u00a0the rest of the world clamors for authentic Old West experiences they&#8217;ve seen in movies and come to California to witness first hand. More than just fashion, fantasy or fad&#8211;cowboy\u00a0culture\u00a0is an\u00a0authentic element of our\u00a0history\u00a0and\u00a0our roots. Throughout California there are many Old [&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\/17625"}],"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=17625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}