{"id":24044,"date":"2017-03-16T16:44:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T23:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24044"},"modified":"2017-03-16T16:44:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T23:44:48","slug":"happy-stpatricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/happy-stpatricks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/irisaint.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Millions of Californians\u00a0are having fun on this glorious, sunny <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/calendar\/2017ma17.html\">St. Patrick&#8217;s Day March 17, 2017<\/a>. From San Diego&#8217;s Gaslamp <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/san-diego-gaslamp-shamrock-festival.html\">shamROCK festival<\/a>\u00a0to the streets, neighborhood\u00a0blocks\u00a0and even alleys of San Francisco where parties at Irish Bank, Chef Sullivan&#8217;s,\u00a0Taverna Aventine, Farley&#8217;s and The Royal Exchange, take place, people are dressed in green and drinking green drinks. One of the most popular beverages is the\u00a0Irish Car Bomb, but\u00a0beer remains the mainstay with Guinness enjoying its best sales of the\u00a0year.<\/p>\n<p>To accommodate the millions of revelers it&#8217;s &#8216;all hands on deck&#8217; for chefs, bartenders, food servers, fiddlers, bagpipers, bouncers, sober drivers and community clubs such as the Seal Beach Lions Club Designated Drivers Program, giving people safe rides home on St. Patricks Day between 4 p.m. and Midnight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TIPS FOR AVOIDING A HANGOVER<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Double up on the vitamins. Inflammation and oxidative stress are key culprits in hangovers, says a mobile medical company treating intoxicated patients on-site.<\/li>\n<li>Eat a\u00a0meal containing carbs, protein, and fat before you drink. Skip salads in favor of burgers.<\/li>\n<li>Take a bottle of Gatorade instead of water with you to replace electrolytes, the nutrients you lose when you drink.<\/li>\n<li>If you buy dark colored liquors such as whiskey that contains more toxins &amp; impurities than vodka and gin,\u00a0splurge on quality products\u00a0that may have\u00a0less\u00a0impurities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Californians\u00a0are having fun on this glorious, sunny St. Patrick&#8217;s Day March 17, 2017. From San Diego&#8217;s Gaslamp shamROCK festival\u00a0to the streets, neighborhood\u00a0blocks\u00a0and even alleys of San Francisco where parties at Irish Bank, Chef Sullivan&#8217;s,\u00a0Taverna Aventine, Farley&#8217;s and The Royal Exchange, take place, people are dressed in green and drinking green drinks. One of [&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\/24044"}],"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=24044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}