{"id":21313,"date":"2015-10-08T02:16:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T09:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21313"},"modified":"2015-10-08T02:16:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T09:16:04","slug":"fascinating-funky-festivals-and-fairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/fascinating-funky-festivals-and-fairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating, Funky Festivals and Fairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/unfezt.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are\u00a0festivals dedicated to foods, sports, music, beer and wine. Those are all fine. But what about a festival just for tarantulas? Creepy, but true, this annual event takes place in Coarsegold on the Oct. 24, 2015. The\u00a0Testicle Festival in Oakdale has ended, as has the Earthquake Festival in Winters, Fog Fest in Pacifica, and the Poison Oak Festival in Columbia. Also gone are the bed races, bathtub races and outhouse races, but the excitement continues\u00a0in California\u00a0where you can expect\u00a0unusual, funky and fascinating fun at festivals still to come. Here are a few:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BLUE JAY: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-pine-cone-festival.html\">California Pine Cone Festival<\/a> Oct. 10<\/li>\n<li>COARSEGOLD: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/coarsegold-tarantula-festival.html\">Tarantula Festival<\/a> Oct. 24<\/li>\n<li>PALM DESERT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/palm-desert-golfcart-parade.html\">Golf Cart Parade<\/a> Oct. 25<\/li>\n<li>RIVERSIDE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/riverside-archaeology-fair.html\">Archaeology Fair<\/a> Oct. 17<\/li>\n<li>TWENTYNINE PALMS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/29palms-weed-show.html\">Weed Show<\/a> Nov. 7-8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are\u00a0festivals dedicated to foods, sports, music, beer and wine. Those are all fine. But what about a festival just for tarantulas? Creepy, but true, this annual event takes place in Coarsegold on the Oct. 24, 2015. The\u00a0Testicle Festival in Oakdale has ended, as has the Earthquake Festival in Winters, Fog Fest in Pacifica, and [&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\/21313"}],"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=21313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}