{"id":20621,"date":"2015-06-30T02:26:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T09:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20621"},"modified":"2015-06-30T02:26:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T09:26:01","slug":"old-fashioned-4th-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/old-fashioned-4th-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Fashioned 4th of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/ca4thjul.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are countless\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/4thofjuly\/4thofjuly-parades.html\">4th of July Parades taking place this year in\u00a0California<\/a>\u00a0and at\u00a0each and every event\u00a0proud, flag-waving Americans participate in\u00a0old-fashioned celebrations honoring the birth of a nation more than 200 years past. There are so many parades taking place that it&#8217;s difficult to offer a synopsis of each. One claims to be the biggest West of the Mississippi (Huntington Beach), and one claims to be the longest in the nation (Alameda). \u00a0There are children&#8217;s parades (Cupertino, Moraga and Belmont Shore),\u00a0boat parades (Newport Beach, Lakeport), mountains parades (Ebbet&#8217;s Pass) and beach parades (Santa Barbara). There are new parades and those that have been around for a really long time\u00a0(Vallejo&#8217;s 4th of July Parade is 162!) \u00a0Being in a parade can be fun but it&#8217;s also a nice to sit and watch the floats, bands, military\u00a0and\u00a0equestrian units go by. Give it a try&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are countless\u00a04th of July Parades taking place this year in\u00a0California\u00a0and at\u00a0each and every event\u00a0proud, flag-waving Americans participate in\u00a0old-fashioned celebrations honoring the birth of a nation more than 200 years past. There are so many parades taking place that it&#8217;s difficult to offer a synopsis of each. One claims to be the biggest West of [&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\/20621"}],"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=20621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}