{"id":22694,"date":"2016-06-05T00:20:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T07:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22694"},"modified":"2016-06-05T00:20:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T07:20:31","slug":"watermelon-festivals-contests-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/watermelon-festivals-contests-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon Festivals, Contests in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/melonwat.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s cold, it&#8217;s sweet, low in calories and it has big seeds that you have to spit. Welcome to the wonderful world of watermelon, a summertime favorite in California where the melons are delicious. \u00a04th of July provides a great opportunity to participate in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/4thofjuly\/watermelon.html\">watermelon and seed spitting contests<\/a>\u00a0in many city picnics throughout the state. However, there are some standout events where watermelon gets top billing. \u00a0See:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-watermelon-festivals.html\">California Watermelon Festivals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cold, it&#8217;s sweet, low in calories and it has big seeds that you have to spit. Welcome to the wonderful world of watermelon, a summertime favorite in California where the melons are delicious. \u00a04th of July provides a great opportunity to participate in watermelon and seed spitting contests\u00a0in many city picnics throughout the state. [&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\/22694"}],"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=22694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}