{"id":21039,"date":"2015-09-01T21:41:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T04:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21039"},"modified":"2015-09-01T21:44:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T04:44:32","slug":"gumby-and-gumbo-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/gumby-and-gumbo-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Gumby and Gumbo Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/dumee.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gumby Festival in Glendora, Calif. on Sept. 18-20, 2015 and Gumbo Festival in Pasadena on September 27 share geographic proximity (18 miles distance) and both are fond of\u00a0&#8220;gumbo&#8221; &#8212; though types of gumbo are quite different\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0and so are the festivals! \u00a0At the three-day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/glendora-gumby-fest.html\">Gumby Festival<\/a> at Citrus College people converge to watch, learn and enjoy the magic of a cartoon character created from a\u00a0clay and mud mixture called gumbo.\u00a0Gumby was created\u00a0by an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation,\u00a0Art Cloakey. Orphaned, adopted, and raised by a talented musician &amp; teacher at\u00a0Pomona College\u00a0(not far from Citrus College where the festival takes place,) the youngster was taught painting, drawing \u00a0and filmmaking. The\u00a0aesthetic environment became the home of Gumby.<\/p>\n<p>Gumbo Festival (gumbofestpasadena.com) features a\u00a0savory, Southern-inspired stew which is\u00a0a veritable art form in Louisiana.\u00a0So, if you&#8217;re looking for a connection between the Gumby and Gumbo Festivals in Southern California, they both involve art forms!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gumby Festival in Glendora, Calif. on Sept. 18-20, 2015 and Gumbo Festival in Pasadena on September 27 share geographic proximity (18 miles distance) and both are fond of\u00a0&#8220;gumbo&#8221; &#8212; though types of gumbo are quite different\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0and so are the festivals! \u00a0At the three-day Gumby Festival at Citrus College people converge to watch, learn and enjoy [&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\/21039"}],"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=21039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}