{"id":23022,"date":"2016-08-12T23:13:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T06:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23022"},"modified":"2016-08-12T23:15:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T06:15:04","slug":"greek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/greek\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat Greek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cruzgree.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-cruz-greek.html\">Santa Cruz &#8220;Eat Like a Greek&#8221; Festival<\/a> is ALL about delicious food. With free admission, it&#8217;s no wonder this event\u00a0consistently ranks as the Santa\u00a0Cruz favorite! <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The traditional Greek diet which makes ample use of vegetables, fruits, grains\u00a0and\u00a0olive oil\u00a0has been touted as one of the healthiest.\u00a0Since\u00a0Greek festivals earn income from food and beverages, the menus\u00a0aim to please. People don&#8217;t go to a Greek festival to get healthy&#8211;they come to taste outrageously delicious Greek foods.<\/p>\n<p>Here are 16 upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/food-festivals-greek.html\">California Greek festivals<\/a> that won&#8217;t let you down:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CASTRO VALLEY: Greek Festival Castro Valley August 19-21<\/li>\n<li>FRESNO: Fresno Greek Festival August 26-28<\/li>\n<li>BELMONT: Belmont Greek Festival Labor Day Weekend September 3-5<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/long-beach-greek-festival.html\">Long Beach Greek Festival<\/a> September 3-5<\/li>\n<li>MONTEREY: Monterey Bay Greek Festival September 3-5<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO: Sacramento Greek Festival September 2-4<\/li>\n<li>SANTA CRUZ: Santa Cruz Greek Festival September 9-11<\/li>\n<li>STOCKTON: Saint Basil Greek Orthodox September 9-11<\/li>\n<li>CARDIFF BY THE SEA: Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Festival September 10-11<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: A Taste of Greece September 16-18<\/li>\n<li>MODESTO: Greek Festival September 17-18<\/li>\n<li>PASADENA: St. Anthony Greek Festival September 23-25<\/li>\n<li>SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO: San Juan Capistrano Greek Festival September 23-25<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: L.A. Greek Fest October 7-9<\/li>\n<li>LANCASTER: AV Greek Festival October 7-9<\/li>\n<li>BAKERSFIELD: St. George Spring Greek Food Festival October 14-16<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Cruz &#8220;Eat Like a Greek&#8221; Festival is ALL about delicious food. With free admission, it&#8217;s no wonder this event\u00a0consistently ranks as the Santa\u00a0Cruz favorite! The traditional Greek diet which makes ample use of vegetables, fruits, grains\u00a0and\u00a0olive oil\u00a0has been touted as one of the healthiest.\u00a0Since\u00a0Greek festivals earn income from food and beverages, the menus\u00a0aim to [&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\/23022"}],"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=23022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}