shamRock Festival<\/a>\u00a0on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2016 exemplifies what Gaslmap Quarter does best\u00a0—\u00a0throw huge block parties\u00a0—\u00a0Mardi Gras, shamRock and Monster Bash —\u00a0that include drinking, dancing to live music and wearing costumes. Of course, Gaslamp hasn’t always been so tame. Its\u00a0Redlight District developed during the 1880s when\u00a0the city’s booming prosperity attracted unscrupulous characters, including prostitutes, gamblers, and outlaws such as\u00a0Wyatt Earp, who ran\u00a0three gambling halls. The abandoned area to the south became a redlight district known as the Stingaree, a name derived from the fierce stingray in San Diego Bay. It is said you could be stung as badly in the Stingaree as you could in San Diego Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO, CALIF. — The annual shamRock Festival\u00a0on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2016 exemplifies what Gaslmap Quarter does best\u00a0—\u00a0throw huge block parties\u00a0—\u00a0Mardi Gras, shamRock and Monster Bash —\u00a0that include drinking, dancing to live music and wearing costumes. Of course, Gaslamp hasn’t always been so tame. Its\u00a0Redlight District developed during the 1880s when\u00a0the city’s booming […]<\/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\/22132"}],"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=22132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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