{"id":24256,"date":"2017-05-16T15:05:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T22:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24256"},"modified":"2017-05-16T15:05:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T22:05:14","slug":"street-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/street-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"California Street Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/gridjail.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many\u00a0towns host chili feeds and BBQs\u00a0to\u00a0support their local\u00a0volunteer fire departments. But Gridley, Calif. is using street justice to raise money for firefighters.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/gridley-red-suspenders-day.html\">Red Suspenders Day<\/a> began in 1961 as a dance to raise revenue for the volunteer firemen of Gridley. \u00a0Red Suspenders Day\u00a0May 19-20, 2017 includes non-stop excitement\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0Unjustice Court nabs citizens who must raise bail to get out of jail\u00a0&#8212; so they don&#8217;t miss this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bed races<\/li>\n<li>Run around the Rice<\/li>\n<li>Guns &amp; Hoses Softball<\/li>\n<li>Pinewood Derby<\/li>\n<li>Parade<\/li>\n<li>Pie Eating Contest<\/li>\n<li>Car Show<\/li>\n<li>BBQ &amp; Dance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/may-festivals.html\">California&#8217;s Week of Craziness<\/a>!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>ANAHEIM:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/anaheim-greek-festival.html\">Orange County\u00a0Greek Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>ANGELS CAMP:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/calaveras-jumping-frog-jubilee.html\">Jumping Frog Jubilee<\/a><\/li>\n<li>ANTIOCH:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/contra-costa-fair.html\">Contra Costa County Fair<\/a><\/li>\n<li>BAKERSFIELD:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/bakersfield-medieval-festival.html\">Medieval California Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>BREA: Centennial Parade and Picnic<\/li>\n<li>BREA: Bonanza Days<\/li>\n<li>CHOWCHILLA: Chowchilla-Madera County\u00a0Fair<\/li>\n<li>COLUMBIA: Columbia Diggins Tent Town<\/li>\n<li>FORT ROSS: Alaska Native Day<\/li>\n<li>FREEPORT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/freeport-walk-wildside-festival.html\">Walk on the Wildside Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>FREMONT: Kids and Kites Festival<\/li>\n<li>FRESNO: Pirate Festival<\/li>\n<li>HAYWARD: Rowell Ranch Rodeo<\/li>\n<li>HUNTINGTON BEACH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/huntington-beach-duckathon.html\">Duck-a-thon<\/a><\/li>\n<li>IRWINDALE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/renaissance-festival-season-approaches-in-sunny-california\/\">Renaissance Faire<\/a><\/li>\n<li>KING CITY: Salinas Valley Fair<\/li>\n<li>KINGSBURG: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/kingsburg-swedish-festival.html\">Swedish Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>LINDEN: Cherry Festival &amp; Parade<\/li>\n<li>LOCKE: Asian Pacific Spring Festival<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/long-beach-pride-festival.html\">Pride Celebration<\/a><\/li>\n<li>MONROVIA: Monrovia Day<\/li>\n<li>OAKLAND: Greek Festival<\/li>\n<li>ORLAND: Glenn County Fair<\/li>\n<li>OXNARD: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/oxnard-strawberry-festival.html\">California Strawberry Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>PENN VALLEY: Penn Valley Rodeo<\/li>\n<li>PETALUMA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/petaluma-american-graffiti.html\">American Graffiti Fest<\/a><\/li>\n<li>PORTERVILLE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/porterville-fair.html\">Porterville Fair<\/a><\/li>\n<li>REDLANDS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/redlands-airfest.html\">Hangar 24 AirFest<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SAN CARLOS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-carlos-hometown-days.html\">Hometown Days<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SANTA CRUZ: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-cruz-greek.html\">Greek\u00a0Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SANTA FE SPRINGS: Aloha Festival<\/li>\n<li>SANTA ROSA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-rosa-rose-festival.html\">Luther Burbank Rose Parade &amp; Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SOLANA BEACH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/solana-beach-fiesta-del-sol.html\">Fiesta del Sol<\/a><\/li>\n<li>VENICE: Spring Fling<\/li>\n<li>VICTORVILLE: San Bernardino County Fair<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many\u00a0towns host chili feeds and BBQs\u00a0to\u00a0support their local\u00a0volunteer fire departments. But Gridley, Calif. is using street justice to raise money for firefighters.\u00a0Red Suspenders Day began in 1961 as a dance to raise revenue for the volunteer firemen of Gridley. \u00a0Red Suspenders Day\u00a0May 19-20, 2017 includes non-stop excitement\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0Unjustice Court nabs citizens who must raise bail 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\/24256"}],"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=24256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}