{"id":22074,"date":"2016-02-10T00:55:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T08:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22074"},"modified":"2016-02-10T00:55:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T08:55:55","slug":"presidents-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/presidents-day\/","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Day Battles are a Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/calico-civil.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/yermo-calico-ghost-town-civil-war.html\">President&#8217;s Weekend Civil War Battle<\/a> (Re-enactment) at Calico Ghost Town which begins on Feb. 13 and continues through Monday, Feb. 15 is a blast! \u00a0Calico Ghost Town operated by San Bernardino County Parks contains authentic 1800&#8217;s era buildings in what was once a silver mining operation with 500 mines. See costumed actors get their jollies by playing soldiers in the Civil War. There&#8217;s nearly always a &#8220;President Abraham Lincoln&#8221; answering kids&#8217; questions and reciting the Gettysburg Address (Four score and seven years ago&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a Civil War\u00a0event in Huntington Beach&#8217;s Central Park Feb. 13 &amp; 14\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-civil-war-events.html\">many \u00a0re-enactments <\/a>\u00a0throughout California this year. Reason to go:<\/p>\n<p>1. Great picture-taking opportunities<br \/>\n2. Learning experience<br \/>\n3. Fun for all ages<br \/>\n4. Filled with sights and sounds<br \/>\n5. Shopping abounds &#8212; food, old-timey stuff, curiosities and collectibles<br \/>\n6. Entertainment with live music and more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual President&#8217;s Weekend Civil War Battle (Re-enactment) at Calico Ghost Town which begins on Feb. 13 and continues through Monday, Feb. 15 is a blast! \u00a0Calico Ghost Town operated by San Bernardino County Parks contains authentic 1800&#8217;s era buildings in what was once a silver mining operation with 500 mines. See costumed actors get [&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\/22074"}],"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=22074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}