{"id":23066,"date":"2016-08-22T23:41:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T06:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23066"},"modified":"2016-08-22T23:41:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T06:41:45","slug":"blazing-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/blazing-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazing Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sizsum.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This week thousands of Californians trek to Black Rock City,\u00a0Nevada\u00a0for the annual\u00a0Burning Man festival August 28-September 5. Transporting their art cars, crazy costumes and one-of-a-kind sculptures to the desert, they celebrate imagination &amp; innovation\u00a0&#8212; but they also count on a\u00a0tradition. It&#8217;s called THE MAN BURNS (left photo) and it happens on the 3rd of September.<\/li>\n<li>In just a few days <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/sand-city-west-end.html\">Sand City&#8217;s West End Festival<\/a> celebrates music, food and art on Aug.26-28, 2016.\u00a0Artisans keep the fires burning as they create designs out glass heated by intense flames. The Kick-off party launches with Maria Muldaur, known for &#8220;Midnight at the Oasis&#8221;. Her\u00a0hit song describes a scene much like the desert oasis\u00a0where Burning Man takes place.<\/li>\n<li>While firefighters work\u00a0to extinguish wild blazes throughout the state, vacationers grab the last rays\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/directory.html\">California&#8217;s beaches<\/a> this week and next. They bathe in the glow of the life-sustaining sun which burns\u00a0at 15 million degrees F. and cools to a balmy 7,800 degrees F. in its chromosphere. It takes eight minutes for light &amp; heat from the largest object in the solar system (approx.\u00a093 million miles from Earth) to reach us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week thousands of Californians trek to Black Rock City,\u00a0Nevada\u00a0for the annual\u00a0Burning Man festival August 28-September 5. Transporting their art cars, crazy costumes and one-of-a-kind sculptures to the desert, they celebrate imagination &amp; innovation\u00a0&#8212; but they also count on a\u00a0tradition. It&#8217;s called THE MAN BURNS (left photo) and it happens on the 3rd of September. [&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\/23066"}],"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=23066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}