{"id":22471,"date":"2016-04-18T01:52:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T08:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22471"},"modified":"2016-04-18T01:52:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T08:52:44","slug":"kick-up-your-heels-for-cowboys-and-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/kick-up-your-heels-for-cowboys-and-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick Up Your Heels for Cowboys and Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cofest.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This weekend\u00a0California&#8217;s famous gold rush\u00a0comes to life at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/paradise-gold-nugget-days.html\">Paradise Gold Nugget Days<\/a>\u00a0featuring a parade, Chow Down BBQ, Donkey Derby and Kids 1800s era Costume Contest.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-clarita-cowboy-festival.html\">Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival<\/a>\u00a0shakes up the dust in William S. Hart Park on April 23 &amp;\u00a024, and the Western film actor who deeded\u00a0his ranch and parkland for public use\u00a0would surely approve. Hart\u00a0acted in and\u00a0produced some of the first Western shorts and silent films. His\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/newhall-hart-museum.html\">265-acre ranch<\/a>\u00a0with room for the buffalo to roam will see plenty of\u00a0chuckwagon cooking action, trick roping, cowboy and swing bands, games, dancing and fun.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile back on the ranch,\u00a0Auburn&#8217;s<b>\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/auburn-rodeo.html\">Gold Country Pro Rodeo<\/a>\u00a0takes place\u00a0April 23-24\u00a0as\u00a0well as\u00a0Springville and Lakeside&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-rodeos.html\">rodeos on the same weekend<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Halfway between Marysville and Grass Valley marks the spot on April 30 for the Smartsville &amp;\u00a0Timbuctoo Pioneer Day April 30.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend\u00a0California&#8217;s famous gold rush\u00a0comes to life at\u00a0Paradise Gold Nugget Days\u00a0featuring a parade, Chow Down BBQ, Donkey Derby and Kids 1800s era Costume Contest. Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival\u00a0shakes up the dust in William S. Hart Park on April 23 &amp;\u00a024, and the Western film actor who deeded\u00a0his ranch and parkland for public use\u00a0would surely approve. [&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\/22471"}],"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=22471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}