{"id":21036,"date":"2015-09-01T00:26:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T07:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21036"},"modified":"2015-09-01T00:26:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T07:26:26","slug":"hot-air-balloon-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/hot-air-balloon-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Air Balloon Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/ripsk.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Labor Day weekend Ripon, California plans to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/ripon-balloon-festival.html\">Color the Skies<\/a>!&#8221; with an annual hot air balloon &amp; kite festival Sept. 5-6, 2015. The San Joaquin County city\u00a0wakes up early (often a necessity for hot air ballooning) with a pancake breakfast at 6 a.m., then the balloon inflation at 6:30 and ascension at 7:30 a.m. Sky activities such as a Kite Candy Drop\u00a0keep visitors entertained with their eyes to the skies. \u00a0Two weeks later\u00a0on Sept. 19\u00a0&amp;\u00a020 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/clovisfest.html\">ClovisFest<\/a>\u00a0in Fresno County follows a similar pattern&#8211;up at 6 a.m. to watch hot air balloons inflate and ascend\u00a0by 7. \u00a0Bring your camera for these colorful photo opportunities. If you&#8217;re looking for a hot air balloon ride, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/soaring-above-california-in-a-hot-air-balloon.html\">here are some possibilities<\/a> where sky&#8217;s the limit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Labor Day weekend Ripon, California plans to &#8220;Color the Skies!&#8221; with an annual hot air balloon &amp; kite festival Sept. 5-6, 2015. The San Joaquin County city\u00a0wakes up early (often a necessity for hot air ballooning) with a pancake breakfast at 6 a.m., then the balloon inflation at 6:30 and ascension at 7:30 a.m. [&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\/21036"}],"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=21036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}