{"id":23990,"date":"2017-02-28T16:02:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T00:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23990"},"modified":"2017-02-28T16:02:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T00:02:10","slug":"wild-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wild-west\/","title":{"rendered":"No N&#8217;Orleans in California&#8217;s Wild West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sdmargra.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The weather could not have been nicer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-mardi-gras.html\">Mardi Gras 2017<\/a>, celebrated in San Diego&#8217;s Gaslamp Quarter and Hillcrest neighborhoods, San Francisco&#8217;s Fillmore, in Paradise, Truckee and other cities throughout the state on Feb. 28! Even though we like to party,\u00a0there&#8217;s a lot more Wild West than Big Easy\u00a0in California&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A\u00a0new\u00a0exhibition at Angels Camp Museum\u00a0(angelscamp.gov\/museum) looks at Medicine in the Gold Rush. While it examines how doctors and drugstores had a social role that continues to influence life in local communities today,\u00a0author Craig MacDonald has also discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/history\/gold-rush-quacks.html\">Gold Rush Quacks<\/a>. Outraged victims of medical\u00a0imposters complained that &#8220;MD&#8221; stood for &#8220;Money Down.&#8221;<br \/>\nHistory is rich with tales of good people and unscrupulous scoundrels!<\/li>\n<li>Amidst great white shark sightings along the Wild West Coast\u00a0this week in Huntington Beach, you may also spot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/chuck-linnen.html\">Chuck Linnen<\/a>, who fascinates with tales about the sharks, 20-foot waves and the thrill of being a Lifeguard in Huntington and Long Beach. The\u00a0Surfing Walk and Surfing Hall of Fame recipient is often seen walking the HB Pier.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather could not have been nicer for Mardi Gras 2017, celebrated in San Diego&#8217;s Gaslamp Quarter and Hillcrest neighborhoods, San Francisco&#8217;s Fillmore, in Paradise, Truckee and other cities throughout the state on Feb. 28! Even though we like to party,\u00a0there&#8217;s a lot more Wild West than Big Easy\u00a0in California&#8230; A\u00a0new\u00a0exhibition at Angels Camp Museum\u00a0(angelscamp.gov\/museum) [&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\/23990"}],"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=23990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}