{"id":22669,"date":"2016-05-30T23:40:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T06:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22669"},"modified":"2016-05-30T23:40:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T06:40:40","slug":"shark-free-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/shark-free-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark-Free Festivals Launch California Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/aquafes.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0swimmer attacked and injured, most likely by a shark, on Memorial Weekend in\u00a0Corona del Mar\u00a0resulted in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/shark-attack-corona-del-mar.html\">local beach closures<\/a>. Shark attacks are rare &#8212; millions of visitors\u00a0enter the Pacific Ocean\u00a0in California\u00a0each summer weekend taking home nothing more than\u00a0annoying sunburns and sand in their shoes. If you&#8217;re brave enough to overcome your fears\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/shark-tours.html\">swim with leopard sharks<\/a> in San Diego!<\/p>\n<p>For the scaredy cats among us there are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/june-festivals.html\">many festivals and events to launch summer<\/a>, minus shark encounters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>APPLE VALLEY: Water Festival June 4 Civic Center Park Aquatic Center<\/li>\n<li>CALIFORNIA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/themeparks\/california-water-parks.html\">18 Waterparks officially open for summer<\/a><\/li>\n<li>CALIFORNIA BEACHES: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/sports\/fishing\/california-grunion-schedule.html\">Grunion Run<\/a>\u00a0June 5-8<\/li>\n<li>CORONA DEL MAR: Balboa Wooden Boat Festival June 4<\/li>\n<li>LAKEPORT: Wood &amp; Glory Boat Show June 4-5<\/li>\n<li>LODI: Youth Fishing Day\u00a0at\u00a0Lodi Lake<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Scuba Show June 4-5 Convention Center<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Pacific Island Festival June 4-5\u00a0at\u00a0Aquarium of the Pacific<\/li>\n<li>MARINA DEL REY: Marina Fest June 4-5 Burton Chace Park<\/li>\n<li>PETALUMA: Day on the River June 5<\/li>\n<li>TWO HARBORS: Summer Wine Festival June 4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0swimmer attacked and injured, most likely by a shark, on Memorial Weekend in\u00a0Corona del Mar\u00a0resulted in\u00a0local beach closures. Shark attacks are rare &#8212; millions of visitors\u00a0enter the Pacific Ocean\u00a0in California\u00a0each summer weekend taking home nothing more than\u00a0annoying sunburns and sand in their shoes. If you&#8217;re brave enough to overcome your fears\u00a0swim with leopard sharks in [&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\/22669"}],"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=22669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}