{"id":24267,"date":"2017-05-20T16:39:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T23:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24267"},"modified":"2017-05-20T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T23:39:16","slug":"coalinga-horned-toad-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/coalinga-horned-toad-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Coalinga Horned Toad Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/hornytd.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The City of Coalinga, Calif. is known for an earthquake, agriculture, oil and incarceration. \u00a0But one of its oldest, fondest traditions on Memorial Weekend is jumping with action.\u00a0It&#8217;s the old-fashioned way of honoring those who serve, and celebrating the best of life in a Fresno County town where up to 15,000 people have decided to stick around. \u00a0The Coalinga Chamber of Commerce does a bang up job of producing this shindig which includes dozens of bands and entertainment, and welcomes tourists by the thousands.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/coalinga-horned-toad-derby.html\">Horned Toad Derby<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Horned Toad Races<\/li>\n<li>a parade<\/li>\n<li>carnival<\/li>\n<li>concerts<\/li>\n<li>old-fashioned games<\/li>\n<li>sack races<\/li>\n<li>egg toss<\/li>\n<li>bicycle races<\/li>\n<li>water balloon toss<\/li>\n<li>whiskerino (best beard or moustache)<\/li>\n<li>Coaling Firemen&#8217;s Water Fights<\/li>\n<li>Pancake Breakfast<\/li>\n<li>Veteran&#8217;s Ceremony on Memorial Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>TIP<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The horned toad is neither a toad nor a frog\u2013-it\u2019s really a horned lizard. The popular names come from the lizard\u2019s round body and blunt snout, which make it resemble a toad or frog. While this weekend&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/calaveras-jumping-frog-jubilee.html\">Jumping Frog Jubilee<\/a> expects plenty of jumping, literally, the Horned Toad Derby is figuratively jumping with excitement as competitors hope their horned toads move fast on all fours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Coalinga, Calif. is known for an earthquake, agriculture, oil and incarceration. \u00a0But one of its oldest, fondest traditions on Memorial Weekend is jumping with action.\u00a0It&#8217;s the old-fashioned way of honoring those who serve, and celebrating the best of life in a Fresno County town where up to 15,000 people have decided 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\/24267"}],"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=24267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}