{"id":24993,"date":"2018-03-11T15:52:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T22:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24993"},"modified":"2018-03-11T15:52:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T22:52:22","slug":"spring-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/spring-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Californians Celebrate Spring with Zing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/swallows.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How do you celebrate Spring? At Mission San Juan Capistrano the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-juan-capistrano-return-of-swallows.html\">Return of the Swallows<\/a> pays homage to little birds that make an incredible, hazardous journey between North and South America. Some die of starvation, exhaustion and storms and those who return to California can face habitat loss when they arrive to nest in March and April. \u00a0When you see those seemingly messy birds making their mud nests around your place, have a heart and give them a break if you can.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/march-festivals.html\">California Celebrates Spring<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/berkeley-persian-festival.html\">Jump Over the Bonfire<\/a> at Persian New Year Festival in Berkeley<\/li>\n<li>Celebrate the Year of the Dog with a Saturday Parade &amp; Festival and Sunday Bomb Day at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/marysville-bok-kai.html\">Bok Kai<\/a> festival in Marysville<\/li>\n<li>Green is a lucky color and is associated with Spring. Get your green on this week at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-stpatricks-day-festivals.html\">St. Patty&#8217;s Day fests<\/a> in California.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you celebrate Spring? At Mission San Juan Capistrano the annual Return of the Swallows pays homage to little birds that make an incredible, hazardous journey between North and South America. Some die of starvation, exhaustion and storms and those who return to California can face habitat loss when they arrive to nest in [&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\/24993"}],"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=24993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24994,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24993\/revisions\/24994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}