{"id":22790,"date":"2016-06-26T11:34:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22790"},"modified":"2016-06-26T11:34:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T18:34:11","slug":"4th-of-july-boat-parades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/4th-of-july-boat-parades\/","title":{"rendered":"See California 4th of July Boat Parades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/indyboa.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The river, the bay and lake are great spots to be to watch fireworks on the 4th of July &#8212; but they also offer daytime entertainment when Californians show their pride (and creativity)\u00a0at\u00a0annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/4thofjuly\/boats.html\">4th of July Boat Parades<\/a>. We&#8217;ve found about a dozen of these events, so there are likely triple that amount of boat parades celebrating the nation&#8217;s independence. Pictured clockwise from bottom left: Long Beach 4th of July Dingy Parade; Westlake Village 4th of July Boat Parade; Oceanside Yankee Doodle Dinghy Parade; and Newport Beach Old Glory Boat Parade.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WACKIEST: Lakeport Cardboard Duct Tape Race<\/li>\n<li>OLDEST: Newport Beach Old Glory Boat Parade, began in 1950s<\/li>\n<li>MOST UNIQUE: Russian River Water Boat Parade followed by the Water Curtain<\/li>\n<li>MOST REMOTE: Bucks Lake 4th of July Boat Parade; Wildwood Lake 4th of July Boat Parade<\/li>\n<li>MOST HOSPITABLE: Avila Beach 4th of July Boat Parade &#8212; anything or anybody that floats and waves a flag is welcome<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The river, the bay and lake are great spots to be to watch fireworks on the 4th of July &#8212; but they also offer daytime entertainment when Californians show their pride (and creativity)\u00a0at\u00a0annual 4th of July Boat Parades. We&#8217;ve found about a dozen of these events, so there are likely triple that amount of boat [&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\/22790"}],"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=22790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}