{"id":23350,"date":"2016-10-20T11:32:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23350"},"modified":"2016-10-20T11:32:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T18:32:32","slug":"police-race-pumpkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/police-race-pumpkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Race Pumpkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/pumrac2.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Manhattan Beach,\u00a0Calif. Police have seen many things race down Manhattan Beach Blvd. hill that heads straight into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/piers\/manhattan-beach-pier.html\">Manhattan Beach Pier<\/a>. On occasion they&#8217;re called to assist with runaway\u00a0vehicles (skateboards, cars, bikes, etc.) but on one day each year they actually participate in races on the city&#8217;s most recognized hill overlooking its\u00a0iconic pier. This weekend on Oct. 23, 2016 the\u00a0famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/manhattan-beach-pumpkin-races.html\">Manhattan Beach \u00a0Pumpkin Races<\/a> pit the MBPD against the mayor and other officials in a race like no other. Not limited to the mucky mucks, everybody in town\u00a0can race their exotic or simple designs. You just have to sign up and pay a fee, with proceeds this year benefitting &#8220;Make Autism Work&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>How it works: Most destinations and companies\u00a0hire\u00a0someone\u00a0to run the event as that company also sells the race vehicle kits specially designed for pumpkins. See pumpkinrace.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>PUMPKIN RACE VEHICLES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/small\/tenipump.jpg\" alt=\"imgs\" width=\"250\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Penguin<\/li>\n<li>Airplane<\/li>\n<li>Squad Car<\/li>\n<li>Alligator<\/li>\n<li>Presidential candidates<\/li>\n<li>The President of the United States<\/li>\n<li>Super Mario Characters<\/li>\n<li>Ballerina<\/li>\n<li>Rastaman<\/li>\n<li>Angry man<\/li>\n<li>Happy face<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manhattan Beach,\u00a0Calif. Police have seen many things race down Manhattan Beach Blvd. hill that heads straight into Manhattan Beach Pier. On occasion they&#8217;re called to assist with runaway\u00a0vehicles (skateboards, cars, bikes, etc.) but on one day each year they actually participate in races on the city&#8217;s most recognized hill overlooking its\u00a0iconic pier. This weekend on [&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\/23350"}],"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=23350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}