{"id":20297,"date":"2015-05-12T22:59:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T05:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20297"},"modified":"2015-05-12T22:59:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T05:59:20","slug":"jumping-frog-jubilee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/jumping-frog-jubilee\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumping Frog Jubilee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/frigti.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ANGELS CAMP, CALIF.&#8211; Starting on May 14 the bullfrogs will be warming up for the annual contest at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/calaveras-jumping-frog-jubilee.html\">Jumping Frog Jubilee<\/a>. The event is part of an old-fashioned Calaveras County Fair celebrating the history, culture and literary legacy which\u00a0grew out of California&#8217;s mining camp towns such as Angels Camp. The county fair May 14-17, 2015 celebrates Mark Twain who created memorable\u00a0characters such as Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, and &#8220;The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County&#8221; an 1865 short story which provides\u00a0the\u00a0theme for the annual county fair&#8217;s jumping frog contest. Pictured is downtown Angels Camp where a Jumping Frog walk of fame pays tribute to each year&#8217;s winner. Headliner act at the fair this year is Grammy winner <em>Asleep at the Wheel<\/em> band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANGELS CAMP, CALIF.&#8211; Starting on May 14 the bullfrogs will be warming up for the annual contest at the Jumping Frog Jubilee. The event is part of an old-fashioned Calaveras County Fair celebrating the history, culture and literary legacy which\u00a0grew out of California&#8217;s mining camp towns such as Angels Camp. The county fair May 14-17, [&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\/20297"}],"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=20297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}