{"id":25936,"date":"2019-04-26T15:47:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T22:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25936"},"modified":"2019-04-26T15:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T22:47:13","slug":"fair-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/fair-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Care About the Fair?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/tehama.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As Californians say goodbye to April, the final weekend heralds the arrival of the big fair fun with Santa Barbara&#8217;s Fair &amp; Exposition. Yep, fair season has begun and won&#8217;t peter out till mid-October.<\/p>\n<p>Fairs haven&#8217;t changed much over the decades&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;ve got your cows, horses, pigs, chicks, lambs, and farm exhibitions and contests.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s outrageous food that can put a few pounds on the average fair-goer if they don&#8217;t watch out. Like&#8230; fried frog legs, fried Hostess Twinkies, fried Oreo cookies and more solid stuff such as ribs, chicken, turkey legs and giant hot dogs.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s beer &amp; wine, sodas for kids and cool, fresh-made lemonade.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s the fun zone or midway with giant stuffed animals that teens want to win for their dates.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s carnival rides with the newest thrills that will make you barf up your meal.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s concerts with no name acts and community groups, oldies, tributes and headliners who do the fair circuit.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s merchandise in exhibit halls such as gadgets, teeth whiteners, carved wood plaques, license plate holders, hair products, foot massages, frying pans, knives and mops &#8212; you name it!<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s contests for cakes, pies, woodworking, art, photography and even knitting.<\/li>\n<li>There are people you may run into and actually know. We even saw long-lost cousins at one fair a few years ago!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/monthly-may-fairs.html\">May Fairs For You<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>National Orange Show May 1-5, 2019 in San Bernardino<\/li>\n<li>Tehama District Fair May 2-5 Red Bluff<\/li>\n<li>Napa County Fair &amp; Fiesta May 3-5, Calistoga<\/li>\n<li>Dixon May Fair May 9-12<\/li>\n<li>Calaveras Co. Fair &amp; Jumping Frog Jubilee May 16-19, Angels Camp<\/li>\n<li>Chowchilla-Madera County Fair May 16-19<\/li>\n<li>Contra Costa County Fair May 16-19, Antioch<\/li>\n<li>Glenn County Fair May 16-19, \u00a0Orland<\/li>\n<li>Salinas Valley Fair May 16-19, \u00a0King City<\/li>\n<li>Sacramento County Fair May 23-27<\/li>\n<li>Silver Dollar Fair May 23-27, Chico<\/li>\n<li>San Bernardino County Fair May 25-June 2 Victorville<\/li>\n<li>Kings Fair May 30-June 2, \u00a0Hanford<\/li>\n<li>San Diego County Fair May 31-July 4, Del Mar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Californians say goodbye to April, the final weekend heralds the arrival of the big fair fun with Santa Barbara&#8217;s Fair &amp; Exposition. Yep, fair season has begun and won&#8217;t peter out till mid-October. Fairs haven&#8217;t changed much over the decades&#8230; You&#8217;ve got your cows, horses, pigs, chicks, lambs, and farm exhibitions and contests. There&#8217;s [&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\/25936"}],"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=25936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25937,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25936\/revisions\/25937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}