{"id":22208,"date":"2016-03-07T11:44:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T19:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22208"},"modified":"2016-03-07T11:44:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T19:44:54","slug":"return-of-swallows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/return-of-swallows\/","title":{"rendered":"Capistrano Return of Swallows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/swallows.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like the flowers that once filled Central Coast fields in concert with\u00a0Lompoc Flower Festival, the swallows that returned to San Juan Capistrano Mission in large numbers are still celebrated even though there haven&#8217;t been\u00a0many nesting at the mission in recent years.\u00a0At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-juan-capistrano-return-of-swallows.html\">annual mission festival<\/a>\u00a0you may find children dressed like swallows and you can hear about the plan to bring the\u00a0swallows\u00a0back. On March 12, 2016\u00a0Swallows Day Parade,\u00a0the largest non-motorized parade in the U.S., takes place on streets outside the mission. A week later on March 19 &#8216;Return of the Swallows Festival&#8217; at the mission includes\u00a0a\u00a0presentation of a proposed nest wall with ready-made plaster nests to get those high-energy, time-bankrupt swallows back. \u00a0Recordings of swallow sounds are played to attract the birds\u00a0known to use\u00a0existing nests to save time &amp; energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the flowers that once filled Central Coast fields in concert with\u00a0Lompoc Flower Festival, the swallows that returned to San Juan Capistrano Mission in large numbers are still celebrated even though there haven&#8217;t been\u00a0many nesting at the mission in recent years.\u00a0At the annual mission festival\u00a0you may find children dressed like swallows and you can hear [&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\/22208"}],"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=22208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}