{"id":24420,"date":"2017-07-13T11:11:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T18:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24420"},"modified":"2017-07-12T18:42:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T01:42:02","slug":"weekend-in-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/weekend-in-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Festivals in 280 Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/juli.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Knowing that the average adult attention span has decreased to 8 seconds and is now shorter than a goldfish (9 seconds,) doesn&#8217;t make this job any easier &#8212; trying to tell you about the weekend in 150 words or less. It can&#8217;t be done! We&#8217;ve chopped it down to 280 words, a real feat on this exceptional California week.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/july-festivals.html\">FESTIVAL HIGHIGHTS<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>AMERICAN CANYON: Water Carnival<\/li>\n<li>BIG BEAR LAKE: Old Miners Chili Cookoff<\/li>\n<li>BLAIRSDEN: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/johnsville-gold-days.html\"> Gold Discovery Days<\/a><\/li>\n<li>CROCKETT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/crockett-sugartown-festival.html\">Sugartown Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>DIXON: Grillin and Chillin Chili Cookoff<\/li>\n<li>DUNCANS MILLS: Civil War Days J<\/li>\n<li>FORTUNA: Fortuna Rodeo<\/li>\n<li>GLENDALE:\u00a0 Cruise Night<\/li>\n<li>GREENVILLE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/greenville-gold-digger-festival.html\"> Gold Digger Days<\/a><\/li>\n<li>HOLLISTER: Street Festival<\/li>\n<li>HOLLYWOOD: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/concerts\/hollywood-concerts.html\"> Hollywood Concerts<\/a><\/li>\n<li>IMPERIAL BEACH Sun &amp; Sea Sand Sculpting Festival<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/los-angeles-lotus-festival.html\"> Lotus Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>MARYSVILLE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/marysville-peach-festival.html\"> Peach Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>MENLO PARK: Summerfest<\/li>\n<li>MOORPARK: Children of Many Colors Powwow<\/li>\n<li>NAPA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/napa-festival-del-sole.html\"> Festival Napa Valley<\/a><\/li>\n<li>NEWPORT BEACH: Plein Air Display Sale<\/li>\n<li>OXNARD: Channel Islands Harbor Art Fest<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 PLEASANTON: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/shakespeare\/pleasanton.html\">\u00a0Shakespeare in the Park<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO:\u00a0 Wienerschnitzel Wiener Dog Nationals<\/li>\n<li>SAN CLEMENTE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-clemente-ocean-festival.html\"> Ocean Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: Festival of the Bells<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-diego-pride.html\"> Pride Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SAN LUIS OBISPO: Central Coast Renaissance Festival<\/li>\n<li>SAN PEDRO: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-pedro-lobster-festival.html\"> Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-barbara-french-festival.html\"> French Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/santa-barbara-lotusfest.html\"> Lotusland LotusFest<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>SEAL BEACH: Lions Club Fish Fry<\/li>\n<li>VENTURA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/ventura-surf-rodeo.html\"> Surf Rodeo<\/a><\/li>\n<li>WEED:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/weedfest.html\">Weed Festival Carnevale and Parade<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/july-beer.html\">Beer<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Costa Mesa | Stockton | Tehachapi | San Luis Obispo | San Rafael | Scotts Valley | Pleasant Hill<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/california-fairs-by-date.html\">Fair<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Costa Mesa | Red Bluff | Sacramento | Santa Maria | Turlock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/july-music.html\">Music<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Auburn &#8211; Grateful Dead tribute | Camarillo &#8211; Tribute | Carmel &#8211; Bach | Fresno &#8211; Femme | Grass Valley &#8211; Bluegrass, Variety | Lawndale &#8211; Island | Long Beach &#8211; Reggae | Los Angeles &#8211; Soul | Mendocino &#8211; Bach to Blues | Napa &#8211; Classical | Navarro &#8211; Indie &amp; Roots | Piercy &#8211; Roots | Pleasant Hill &#8211; Blues | Sacramento &#8211; Hula | Santa Barbara &#8211; French, Gypsy | Trinity Lake &#8211; Jazz | Ventura &#8211; Rock, Indie | Wilseyville &#8211; Indie<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/july-wine.html\">Wine<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Napa | Oakland | Placerville | Santa Barbara | Santa Monica | Trinity Lake<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing that the average adult attention span has decreased to 8 seconds and is now shorter than a goldfish (9 seconds,) doesn&#8217;t make this job any easier &#8212; trying to tell you about the weekend in 150 words or less. It can&#8217;t be done! We&#8217;ve chopped it down to 280 words, a real feat on [&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\/24420"}],"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=24420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}