{"id":22708,"date":"2016-06-08T23:48:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T06:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22708"},"modified":"2016-06-08T23:48:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T06:48:56","slug":"california-oyster-fests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-oyster-fests\/","title":{"rendered":"California Oyster Fests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/ccoyst.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco, which boasts the largest oyster festival on the coast, put its celebration to bed in May.\u00a0But there are others on the way &#8212; California actually has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-oyster-festivals.html\">handful of oyster festivals to enjoy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Next weekend the 26th annual Arcata Bay Oyster Festival includes the quirky and\u00a0fun\u00a0Oyster Calling Contest, followed by the The Point&#8217;s Shuck-and-Swallow Contest.<\/li>\n<li>On the very same weekend and opposite end of the state, San Diego&#8217;s 7th annual Oyster &amp; Music Festival is filled with two glorious days of music and food at\u00a0Marina Embarcadero.<\/li>\n<li>Then in July the 5th annual Oyster Festival in Avila Beach includes music and a shucking contest. While admission is $22, the 55+ crowd gets in free.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, Bodega Seafood Festival in August, which is heavy on oysters, helps visitors discover that there are some fantastic oyster bars and restaurants in the surrounding area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco, which boasts the largest oyster festival on the coast, put its celebration to bed in May.\u00a0But there are others on the way &#8212; California actually has a handful of oyster festivals to enjoy. Next weekend the 26th annual Arcata Bay Oyster Festival includes the quirky and\u00a0fun\u00a0Oyster Calling Contest, followed by the The Point&#8217;s [&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\/22708"}],"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=22708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}