{"id":20800,"date":"2015-07-28T00:19:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T07:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20800"},"modified":"2015-07-28T00:19:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T07:19:16","slug":"chariots-of-the-venetians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/chariots-of-the-venetians\/","title":{"rendered":"Chariots of the Venetians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/venifez.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This weekend an unusual scene takes to the sidewalks and streets of Venice, Calif. as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/venice-chariots-festival.html\">Festival of Chariots<\/a> makes its way through the crowd. The festival which includes a free feast for thousands, free entertainment and exhibits, is produced\u00a0by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) or more commonly known as Hare Krishna movement.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/august-festivals.html\">Other California festivals this first weekend in August include<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Big Bear Renaissance Faire<\/li>\n<li>Hermosa Beach International Surf Festival<\/li>\n<li>Long Beach Big Bite Bacon Festival<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles Doggie Street Festival<\/li>\n<li>Manhattan Beach Sand Castle Festival<\/li>\n<li>McCloud Mt. Shasta Ski Park Volcano Mud Run<\/li>\n<li>Newark Kin-Yoobi Con<\/li>\n<li>North Fork\u00a0Mono Museum Indian Day Fair &amp; Pow Wow<\/li>\n<li>Oakland Art\u00a0+ Soul<\/li>\n<li>San Diego Fringe Festival<\/li>\n<li>San Jose Renaissance Faire<\/li>\n<li>Santa Ana\u00a0OC Pride Festival<\/li>\n<li>Santa Barbara Greek Festival<\/li>\n<li>Watsonville Strawberry Festival<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend an unusual scene takes to the sidewalks and streets of Venice, Calif. as the Festival of Chariots makes its way through the crowd. The festival which includes a free feast for thousands, free entertainment and exhibits, is produced\u00a0by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) or more commonly known as Hare Krishna movement. [&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\/20800"}],"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=20800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}