{"id":20636,"date":"2015-07-03T03:11:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T10:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20636"},"modified":"2015-07-03T03:13:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T10:13:16","slug":"4th-of-july-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/4th-of-july-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"4th of July in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/mubea.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s not your average state when it comes to celebrating the 4th of July.\u00a0Take\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/venice-4th-of-july-body-building-contest-picks-mr-and-ms-muscle-beach.html\">Mr. &amp; Mrs. Muscle Beach<\/a> for instance. The contest is held each year at Venice Beach on Independence Day. It attracts tourists from around the globe who would rather watch tanned bodies on a sunny beach than sit in a park spitting \u00a0watermelon seeds. The 4th of July is chock full of opportunities to taste, sniff, sample and see amazing and beautiful things. No matter what you choose you&#8217;re\u00a0bound to find a hint of patriotism.\u00a0Here are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/4thofjuly\/watermelon.html\">4th of July events where watermelon gets its just desserts<\/a>&#8230;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s not your average state when it comes to celebrating the 4th of July.\u00a0Take\u00a0Mr. &amp; Mrs. Muscle Beach for instance. The contest is held each year at Venice Beach on Independence Day. It attracts tourists from around the globe who would rather watch tanned bodies on a sunny beach than sit in a park spitting [&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\/20636"}],"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=20636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}