{"id":24296,"date":"2017-05-28T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T23:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24296"},"modified":"2017-05-28T16:23:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T23:23:47","slug":"big-birthday-party-in-monterey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/big-birthday-party-in-monterey\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Birthday Party in Monterey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sbmerien.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MONTEREY, CALIF. &#8212; On June 3, 2017 the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/monterey-birthday.html\">La Merienda<\/a> (picnic)\u00a0invites the public to\u00a0purchase tickets for a very special barbecue with mariachis, pi\u00f1atas and a big birthday cake served in the\u00a0Memory Garden on Custom House Plaza. The event celebrates\u00a0Monterey&#8217;s 247th birthday.\u00a0A bit of history&#8230; Captain\u00a0Gaspar de Portola\u00a0was joined by Franciscan Father Junipero Serra\u00a0for a\u00a0mass \u00a0held under the Monterey Oaks\u00a0on June 3, 1770. It was the establishment of the California mission headquarters and founding of\u00a0Monterey. Six years later in 1776 Spain named Monterey the capital of Baja (lower) and Alta (upper) California. The city&#8217;s history\u00a0is as significant and fascinating as any place in the state.<\/p>\n<h2>Pirates!<\/h2>\n<p>An\u00a0effort to destroy Spain&#8217;s presence in California\u00a0brought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/history\/california-pirates.html\">an attack on Monterey<\/a> by Argentinean Hippolyte\u00a0Bouchard in\u00a01818. His attempt to overthrow the regime is considered California&#8217;s most famous pirate attack. Our state has always held a fascination for pirates with theme parks offering pirate attractions, and movie productions starring Johnny Depp as pirate Jack Sparrow grossing more than $1 billion.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-pirate-festivals.html\">Pirate Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>VENTURA: Pirate Days Festival, June 3-4, 2017, 11 a.m. &#8211; 4 p.m. Spinnaker Dr., Ventura Harbor<\/li>\n<li>VALLEJO: Northern California Pirate Festival June 17-18 at Vallejo Waterfront Park<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH Pirate Invasion of the Belmont Pier July 1-2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTEREY, CALIF. &#8212; On June 3, 2017 the annual La Merienda (picnic)\u00a0invites the public to\u00a0purchase tickets for a very special barbecue with mariachis, pi\u00f1atas and a big birthday cake served in the\u00a0Memory Garden on Custom House Plaza. The event celebrates\u00a0Monterey&#8217;s 247th birthday.\u00a0A bit of history&#8230; Captain\u00a0Gaspar de Portola\u00a0was joined by Franciscan Father Junipero Serra\u00a0for a\u00a0mass [&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\/24296"}],"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=24296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}