{"id":22594,"date":"2016-05-12T02:39:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T09:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22594"},"modified":"2016-05-12T02:39:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T09:39:41","slug":"californias-crazy-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/californias-crazy-races\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s Crazy Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/odrace.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Build it and they will race it. California races pictured left to right: Bed races, duck races, Temecula barrel races, outhouse races\u00a0and\u00a0kinetic sculpture races!\u00a0As summer approaches\u00a0California&#8217;s\u00a0old-fashioned 4th of July community picnics wouldn&#8217;t be complete without\u00a0three-legged races and gunny sack races\u00a0&#8212; they&#8217;re loads of fun.\u00a0But there&#8217;s a whole lot more racing going on&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thousand Oaks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/thousand-oaks-conejo-valley-days.html\">Conejo Valley Days<\/a>\u00a0May 11-15, 2016\u00a0\u00a0Outhouse Races on weekend<\/li>\n<li>Huntington Beach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/huntington-beach-duckathon.html\">Duck-a-thon<\/a> Rubber Duck Races May 14-15<\/li>\n<li>Huntington Beach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/dogs\/california-dachshund-races.html\">Wiener Dog Races<\/a> May 15<\/li>\n<li>Calaveras County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/calaveras-jumping-frog-jubilee.html\">Jumping Frog Jubilee<\/a>\u00a0and Outhouse Races May 19-22<\/li>\n<li>Vista Rubber Duck Races May 22<\/li>\n<li>Bishop\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/bishop-mule-days.html\">Mule Days<\/a> Mule Competitions May 24-29<\/li>\n<li>Sacramento County Fair Duck Races\u00a0and All Alaskan Pig Races\u00a0May 26-30, sacfair.com<\/li>\n<li>Humboldt County&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-kinetic-sculpture-race.html\">California Kinetic Sculpture Race<\/a> May 28-30<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/nevada-city-soapbox-derby.html\">Nevada City Soap Box Derby<\/a> June 5<\/li>\n<li>Wrightwood Mountaineer Days July 9-10 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/wrightwood-mountaineer-days.html\">Bed Races<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/corning-olive-festival.html\">Corning Olive Festival<\/a>\u00a0Aug. 26-27 Bed Races<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Build it and they will race it. California races pictured left to right: Bed races, duck races, Temecula barrel races, outhouse races\u00a0and\u00a0kinetic sculpture races!\u00a0As summer approaches\u00a0California&#8217;s\u00a0old-fashioned 4th of July community picnics wouldn&#8217;t be complete without\u00a0three-legged races and gunny sack races\u00a0&#8212; they&#8217;re loads of fun.\u00a0But there&#8217;s a whole lot more racing going on&#8230;. Thousand Oaks Conejo [&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\/22594"}],"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=22594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}