{"id":20346,"date":"2015-05-18T19:48:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T02:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20346"},"modified":"2015-05-18T19:48:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T02:48:36","slug":"mule-days-in-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/mule-days-in-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"Mule Days in Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/mudaz.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mules, the\u00a0offspring of male donkeys and female horses, exhibit a higher cognitive intelligence than their parent species.\u00a0Used extensively to transport cargo in wilderness areas of California&#8217;s Sierra Nevada mountains, over 15\u00a0 mule pack stations\u00a0in\u00a0the Sierra Nevada serve tourists in\u00a0wilderness exploration. If you are stubborn as a mule, you\u00a0gotta&#8217; go to the\u00a0Memorial Weekend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/bishop-mule-days.html\">Mule Days<\/a> festival in Bishop:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over 700 mules with their trainers, riders and packers participate in a festival that&#8217;s part mule show, part test of skills, and part Wild West show in 14\u00a0exciting events.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I Want To Be A Packer Program!&#8221;\u00a0for kids features\u00a0Stick Mule Rodeo, Fishing, Packing School and Clown School.<\/li>\n<li>The beautiful, black\u00a0Percheron Thunder six-hitch driven by Jason Goodman is back by popular demand, appearing in the Saturday morning parade and\u00a0most Mule Days weekend shows.<\/li>\n<li>Concert\u00a0headliner, American Western singer\/songwriter\u00a0Brenn Hill, delivers\u00a0songs &amp; lyrics that resonate with fans of the Old West.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mules, the\u00a0offspring of male donkeys and female horses, exhibit a higher cognitive intelligence than their parent species.\u00a0Used extensively to transport cargo in wilderness areas of California&#8217;s Sierra Nevada mountains, over 15\u00a0 mule pack stations\u00a0in\u00a0the Sierra Nevada serve tourists in\u00a0wilderness exploration. If you are stubborn as a mule, you\u00a0gotta&#8217; go to the\u00a0Memorial Weekend Mule Days festival [&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\/20346"}],"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=20346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}