{"id":21136,"date":"2015-09-15T12:29:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T19:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21136"},"modified":"2015-09-15T12:29:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T19:29:05","slug":"wacky-boat-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wacky-boat-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Wacky Boat Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/venocekin.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Californians enjoy sports competitions but some of the races get a little crazy! There are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-bed-races.html\">bed races<\/a>, bathtub races, ducktape boat races, dragonboat races, outhouse races and one of our favorites &#8212; kinetic sculpture\u00a0races. You can see them on Memorial Weekend in Humboldt County or enjoy them in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/ventura-kinetic-sculpture-race.html\">Ventura Harbor<\/a> (left photo) on October 17, 2015. A slightly different take that&#8217;s equally exciting\u00a0is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/oceanside-harbor-days.html\">Oceanside Harbor Days<\/a> &#8220;Nail &#8216;n Sail&#8221;race (right photo) on September 27. Contestants build &amp; decorate their craft\u00a0with\u00a0high hopes that their boats\u00a0will float. In nearly every annual event\u00a0a few of the crews\u00a0get a\u00a0soaking when they find out their designs aren&#8217;t waterproof. Crowds watching from the shoreline cheer on the fearless racers who make a big splash!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Californians enjoy sports competitions but some of the races get a little crazy! There are\u00a0bed races, bathtub races, ducktape boat races, dragonboat races, outhouse races and one of our favorites &#8212; kinetic sculpture\u00a0races. You can see them on Memorial Weekend in Humboldt County or enjoy them in Ventura Harbor (left photo) on October 17, 2015. [&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\/21136"}],"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=21136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}