{"id":20199,"date":"2015-04-30T03:49:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T10:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20199"},"modified":"2015-04-30T03:49:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T10:49:15","slug":"raisin-capital-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/raisin-capital-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Raisin Capital Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/raizin.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SELMA, CALIF. &#8212; The city that once called itself Home of the Peach and A Peach of a City is now the Raisin Capital of the World. It&#8217;s true that 90% of the raisins grown in the U.S. are within an 8 mile radius of Selma (and California produces 100% of U.S. raisins.) \u00a0Sandy soil, warm summer temperatures\u00a0and\u00a0irrigation utilizing\u00a0snow-melt water from the nearby Sierra Nevada mountain range create the perfect conditions for grapes to thrive and become raisins. Celebrate raisins this weekend in Fresno County with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/selma-raisin-festival.html\">Selma Raisin Festival<\/a>. The event features the crowning of a king or queen, a carnival, culinary events and a Raisin Fun Run on Saturday morning. The entire city is abuzz this week between April 29 and May 3 for the Selma Raisin Festival. If you miss this event, look for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/dinuba-raisin-day-festival.html\">Dinuba Raisin Festival<\/a> in the fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SELMA, CALIF. &#8212; The city that once called itself Home of the Peach and A Peach of a City is now the Raisin Capital of the World. It&#8217;s true that 90% of the raisins grown in the U.S. are within an 8 mile radius of Selma (and California produces 100% of U.S. raisins.) \u00a0Sandy soil, [&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\/20199"}],"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=20199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}