{"id":25395,"date":"2018-09-05T14:32:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T21:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25395"},"modified":"2018-09-05T14:32:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T21:32:57","slug":"kick-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/kick-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick it up a Notch at Weekend Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/wfarg.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve watched the US Open (August 27-September 9, 2018) broadcast from Arthur Ashe Tennis Stadium in Flushing Meadows, New York, it&#8217;s been hot &amp; humid there, and many matches have gone past midnight. Last night was torturous as World Number One Rafael Nadal (Spain) took on and finally beat Austria&#8217;s Dominc Thiem for the longest match of this year&#8217;s US Open, lasting 4 hours and 49 minutes!<\/p>\n<p>For those who want to kick it up a notch themselves, California has some fun weekend events, un-gluing you from the US Open, even though it IS addictive to see!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/calendar\/2018se8.html\">Kick Up the Dust<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>ALAMEDA: Alameda Tennis Tournament Sept.7-9 at Fairfield Tennis Courts, alamedaca.gov<\/li>\n<li>AUBURN: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/auburn-gold-country-fair.html\">Gold Country Fair<\/a> California Nights and Country Lights, Sept.6-9. \u00a0Monster Trucks &amp; Quad Wars and The Gold Country Fair Demolition Derby are dirty, dusty and definitely exciting stuff.<\/li>\n<li>BANNING: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/banning-stagecoach-days.html\">Stagecoach Days<\/a> September 7-9. Bull riding, calf roping, barrel racing, saddle bronc, bareback and breakaway PLUS the annual Stagecoach Days Parade and big carnival.<\/li>\n<li>BARSTOW:\u00a0Marine Base Extreme Rodeo Sept.7-8.<\/li>\n<li>CARMEL BY THE SEA: Carmel Beach annual Sandcastle Competition &#8220;Rooms in the Dunes&#8221; Sept.8 is extraordinary. It&#8217;s produced by the American Institute of Architects Monterey Bay Chapter!<\/li>\n<li>CARMICHAEL: Dinner in the Park catered event at Charles Jensen Botanical Gardens still has tickets as of this posting.<\/li>\n<li>CLEAR LAKE:\u00a0 Seaplane Splash In Sept.7-8. Not so much dust, but a big splash.<\/li>\n<li>CORONADO: Beach Polo Cup Sept.7-9. Sand and balls flying&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>HUNTINGTON BEACH: Blessing of the Waves Sept.9 pays homage to the Pacific Ocean &#8212; and surfing!<\/li>\n<li>TULARE:\u00a0CCPRA Rodeo Sept.8<\/li>\n<li>VENTURA:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-chalk-art-festivals.html\">Chalk Art and Street Painting Festival<\/a> Sept.8-9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve watched the US Open (August 27-September 9, 2018) broadcast from Arthur Ashe Tennis Stadium in Flushing Meadows, New York, it&#8217;s been hot &amp; humid there, and many matches have gone past midnight. Last night was torturous as World Number One Rafael Nadal (Spain) took on and finally beat Austria&#8217;s Dominc Thiem for the [&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\/25395"}],"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=25395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25396,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25395\/revisions\/25396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}