Peg Leg Liar’s Contest<\/a> in Anza Borrego State Park you’re not going to win if you don’t tell the best darned story there ever was.\u00a0Each year on the first Saturday in April story tellers converge at a dry and barren spot with only faded signs to mark it, ready to try their material out on the tough audience and judges. They do it in honor of ‘Peg Leg’ Thomas L. Smith, a spinner of tales and miner who spread gems\u00a0about riches & wealth to be had in California. True or not, the\u00a0many stories that spread around\u00a0the globe during the\u00a0California gold rush of the mid-1800s\u00a0pushed the sparsely populated state of 150,000 to 1 million in 35 short years, 2 million by 1905; 3 million by 1915; 5 million by 1925; and 1 million new residents on average every 2.5 years (approx.) since!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’re going to lie, you\u00a0might as well\u00a0make it a whopper — and at Peg Leg Liar’s Contest in Anza Borrego State Park you’re not going to win if you don’t tell the best darned story there ever was.\u00a0Each year on the first Saturday in April story tellers converge at a dry and barren spot […]<\/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\/22148"}],"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=22148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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