{"id":20716,"date":"2015-07-15T03:02:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T10:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20716"},"modified":"2015-07-15T03:05:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T10:05:50","slug":"10-terrific-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/10-terrific-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Terrific Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/dafesti.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This weekend Californians are having fun in the water and in the sun. Enjoy\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-events.html\">festivals to help you celebrate summer&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>1. San Clemente Ocean Festival &#8211; in addition to sandcastles and concerts, the weekend event features beach sports competitions that test the skills of trained athletes in a variety of ocean challenges.<\/p>\n<p>2. Santa Barbara French Festival &#8211; this annual event includes everything from a French poodle parade to can-can dancers. \u00a0It is tres magnifique!<\/p>\n<p>3. Marysville Peach Festival &#8211; this stone fruit that grows abundantly in Marysville&#8217;s hot, summer climate is featured in tasty dishes, ice creams, and contests.<\/p>\n<p>4. County Fairs &#8211; Sacramento, Costa Mesa, Santa Maria and\u00a0Susanville are having county fairs.<\/p>\n<p>5. Long Beach boasts\u00a0four amazing festivals this weekend &#8212; Ski to Catalina; Love Long Beach; Dragon Boat Festival; and Gospel Festival<\/p>\n<p>6. San Diego hosts 3 festivals &#8212; Pride Festival, Reptile Show and Festival of the Bells.<\/p>\n<p>7. Ventura Pirate Days &#8211; ships ahoy at Ventura Harbor<\/p>\n<p>8. Capay Tomato Festival &#8211; California&#8217;s great tomato-growing region has fresh\u00a0crops to sample at this tasty event.<\/p>\n<p>9. Fortuna&#8217;s annual rodeo is the buzz of the town.<\/p>\n<p>10. Pomona Body Art Expo &#8211; showcases the latest tattoo trends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend Californians are having fun in the water and in the sun. Enjoy\u00a0festivals to help you celebrate summer&#8230;&gt; 1. San Clemente Ocean Festival &#8211; in addition to sandcastles and concerts, the weekend event features beach sports competitions that test the skills of trained athletes in a variety of ocean challenges. 2. Santa Barbara French [&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\/20716"}],"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=20716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}