{"id":24517,"date":"2017-08-24T17:19:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T00:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24517"},"modified":"2017-08-24T17:19:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T00:19:27","slug":"food-fest-indulgence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/food-fest-indulgence\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Be A Pig at Food Fests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/dontbe.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Question: How do they get pigs to race at fairs? \u00a0Answer: The pigs get to eat at the end of the race.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pigs saved from fire served as sausage to rescuing firefighters: British farmer Rachel Rivers recently thanked firefighters who rescued her litter of piglets and two sows from a barn fire in February by giving them sausages made out of the animals. &#8220;I gave those animals the best quality of life I could ever give until the time they go to slaughter, and they go into the food chain,&#8221; she said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Food festivals such as San Diego&#8217;s Bacon Fest on Sept.2, are meant to be relished. It&#8217;s OK to go hog wild with enthusiasm &#8212; just don&#8217;t be a pig!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/august-food.html\">August Food Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>AMERICAN CANYON: American Canyon Chili Cook-Off Aug.26, 2017<\/li>\n<li>BERKELEY: Chocolate &amp; Chalk Art Festival Aug.27<\/li>\n<li>BODEGA: Bodega Seafood Art &amp; Wine Festival Aug.26-27<\/li>\n<li>CARMEL: Jewish Food Festival Aug.27<\/li>\n<li>COSTA MESA: OC Night Market Aug.25-27<\/li>\n<li>DOWNIEVILLE: Ice Cream Social Aug.26<\/li>\n<li>FRESNO: Fresno Greek Festival Aug.25-27<\/li>\n<li>FULLERTON: Taco Festival Aug.26<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: Food &amp; Wine Festival Aug.24-<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: Day-Lee Foods World Gyoza Eating Championship Aug.26<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: L.A. Taco Fest Aug.26<\/li>\n<li>NAPA: Blues, Brews &amp; BBQ Aug.26<\/li>\n<li>OAKDALE: Taste of Oakdale Aug.29<\/li>\n<li>OAKLAND: Chinatown Streetfest Aug.26-27<\/li>\n<li>OXNARD: Summer Burger and Beer Bash Aug.28<\/li>\n<li>PASO ROBLES: Home &amp; Gourmet Expo of Paso Robles Aug.26- 27<\/li>\n<li>PENN VALLEY: Grills N&#8217; Grilles Aug.26<\/li>\n<li>ROHNERT PARK: Annual Pacific Islanders Festival Aug.<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: Eat Drink SF Epic Food Festival Aug.24-27<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE: San Jose Italian Family Festa Aug.26-27<\/li>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA: Aloha Spirit Bash Aug.26<\/li>\n<li>SANTA CRUZ: Tequila and Tacos Aug.26-27<\/li>\n<li>SANTA MARIA: Tastes of Mexico Aug.25<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: How do they get pigs to race at fairs? \u00a0Answer: The pigs get to eat at the end of the race. Pigs saved from fire served as sausage to rescuing firefighters: British farmer Rachel Rivers recently thanked firefighters who rescued her litter of piglets and two sows from a barn fire in February by [&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\/24517"}],"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=24517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}