{"id":25949,"date":"2019-05-02T14:23:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T21:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25949"},"modified":"2019-05-02T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T21:23:03","slug":"blinko-de-cinco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/blinko-de-cinco\/","title":{"rendered":"Blink-o de Cinco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/augfoo.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are countless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-cinco-de-mayo.html\">Cinco de Mayo events<\/a>\u00a0honoring Mexico&#8217;s May 5th celebration in the Golden State. But this IS California, mind you, and its diverse cultures and tastes have a lot on their plate the first weekend May. So don&#8217;t hesitate to dive in for some hedonistic pleasures in a state like no other.<\/p>\n<p>Get busy as Cinco is but a blink-o!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-chili-cookoffs.html\"> Chili Cookoffs <\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO: Swallow&#8217;s Inn Chili Cook-off May 4, 2019<\/li>\n<li>AUBURN: Auburn Chili Cook-off May 4<\/li>\n<li>THOUSAND OAKS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/thousand-oaks-chili-cookoff.html\">Conejo Valley Chili Cookoff<\/a> May 5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/may-food.html\">Food Fests<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>BAKERSFIELD: Murray Family Farms Cherry Festival May 4-5<\/li>\n<li>BODEGA BAY: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/bodega-fishermans-festival.html\">Fishermans Festival<\/a>\u00a0May 4-5<\/li>\n<li>ELK GROVE: Western Festival May 3-5 with KCBS BBQ Championship<\/li>\n<li>KERMAN: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/kerman-almond-festival.html\">Kerman Almond Festival<\/a>\u00a0May 4<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Seafood Festival May 4<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: Vegfest Los Angeles May 5<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: Pancakes and Booze May 3-4<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: LA Times Food Bowl May 1-31<\/li>\n<li>LA HABRA:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/la-habra-citrus-fair.html\">La Habra Citrus Fair<\/a>\u00a0May 3-5<\/li>\n<li>PASO ROBLES: Paso Robles Olive Festival May 4<\/li>\n<li>SAN BERNARDINO: National Orange Show Citrus Fair May 1-5<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: Tacos &amp; Tequila May 4<\/li>\n<li>SAN JUAN BAUTISTA: Great San Juan Bautista Rib Cook Off May 3-5<\/li>\n<li>SANTA CLARITA: Santa Clarita Valley VegFest May 4<\/li>\n<li>SELMA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/selma-raisin-festival.html\">Selma Raisin Festival<\/a> May 1-5<\/li>\n<li>WOODLAND: California Honey Festival May 4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/may-music.html\">Music Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>AUBURN: String Fling Acoustic Music Festival May 2-4<\/li>\n<li>BRAWLEY: Kickin&#8217; It Country, May 4<\/li>\n<li>CHICO: Wildflower Music Festival May 4<\/li>\n<li>CLOVERDALE: Cloverdale Fiddle Festival May 4<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Just Like Heaven Music Festival May 3-4<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH: Pacific Islander Festival May 4 -5<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: Michelada Music Festival<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: Ho&#8217;olaule&#8217;a May 4 -5<\/li>\n<li>TOPANGA: Topanga Blues Festival May 4<\/li>\n<li>VISTA: Rhythm and Brews Music Festival May 4<\/li>\n<li>YUCAIPA: Music &amp; Arts Festival May 3-5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are countless Cinco de Mayo events\u00a0honoring Mexico&#8217;s May 5th celebration in the Golden State. But this IS California, mind you, and its diverse cultures and tastes have a lot on their plate the first weekend May. So don&#8217;t hesitate to dive in for some hedonistic pleasures in a state like no other. Get busy [&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\/25949"}],"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=25949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25950,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25949\/revisions\/25950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}