{"id":21084,"date":"2015-09-08T01:55:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T08:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21084"},"modified":"2015-09-08T01:55:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T08:55:02","slug":"californians-celebrate-fiestas-patrias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/californians-celebrate-fiestas-patrias\/","title":{"rendered":"Californians Celebrate Fiestas Patrias"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pictured left & center are scenes from Santa Ana, California’s Fiestas Patrias Parade and festival. The right picture shows a 5th generation Angeleno at Olvera Street’s Fiestas Patrias.<\/p>\n

This week a portion of the approx. 15 million Latinos\u00a0in California plan to celebrate Mexican Independence Day, Fiestas Patrias<\/a>,\u00a0which translates\u00a0as ‘Patriotic Holidays’. \u00a0Since roughly two-thirds of Hispanics in the state are Mexicans, that equates to around 10 million residents identifying this week’s festivals as part of their heritage and roots. Most celebrations and\u00a0events are free and include concerts, speeches, vendor markets and even parades. The biggest\u00a0is held in Los Angeles where an estimated 200,000 people attend over several days.\u00a0You’ll find events in L.A., Santa Ana, San Jose, Fresno, San Diego, Santa Fe Springs, Wilmington, Pasadena, Inglewood, El Centro, Coachella and Anaheim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pictured left & center are scenes from Santa Ana, California’s Fiestas Patrias Parade and festival. The right picture shows a 5th generation Angeleno at Olvera Street’s Fiestas Patrias. This week a portion of the approx. 15 million Latinos\u00a0in California plan to celebrate Mexican Independence Day, Fiestas Patrias,\u00a0which translates\u00a0as ‘Patriotic Holidays’. \u00a0Since roughly two-thirds of Hispanics […]<\/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\/21084"}],"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=21084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}