{"id":26117,"date":"2019-07-17T15:11:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T22:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26117"},"modified":"2019-07-17T15:11:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T22:11:02","slug":"ice-cream-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/ice-cream-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National Ice Cream Day in July is OK, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/naticemi.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>National Ice Cream Day, part of July&#8217;s National Ice Cream Month, falls on the third Sunday which is coming up!<\/p>\n<p>One of the hardest things about going on a diet is not eating ice cream. While common sense says you can eat diet versions and eat smaller portions, some of us have a passion that can&#8217;t be controlled. Give us a gallon of premium quality ice cream and we&#8217;ll scarf down the entire container in one sitting! The diet stuff, eh, not so much.<\/p>\n<p>Californians eat tons of ice cream &#8212; we are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/dining\/california-ice-cream.html\">leading state to produce this delicious dessert<\/a>. In a single year California&#8217;s ice cream makers churn out over 135 million gallons!<\/p>\n<p>California zoos make good use of the public&#8217;s love of ice cream by hosting summer fundraisers in which you can lick, slurp and taste to your heart&#8217;s content in a wild, zoo setting. Atascadero&#8217;s Charles Paddock Zoo held one of these events, I Scream Zoofari, last Saturday.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/zoos\/zoo-fundraisers.html\">Zoo Ice Cream (and other foods) Fundraisers<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>BAKERSFIELD: Ice Cream Zoofari at CALM Zoo August 24, 2019<\/li>\n<li>EUREKA: Sequoia Park Zoo&#8217;s Zootini August 10<\/li>\n<li>FRESNO: Chaffee Zoo&#8217;s Producers Ice Cream Zoofari August 3<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles Zoo Brew at the Zoo August 2<\/li>\n<li>MOORPARK: Rendezvous at the Moorpark College Zoo October 10<\/li>\n<li>OAKLAND: Oakland Zoo Feast for the Beasts July 27<\/li>\n<li>PALM DESERT: Living Desert&#8217;s La Gran Fiesta October 12<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO: Sacramento Zoo Ice Cream Safari August 17<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: San Diego Zoo Food, Wine &amp; Brew Celebration September 21<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE: Happy Hollow Park &amp; Zoo&#8217;s Brew at the Zoo July 19<\/li>\n<li>SAN MATEO: CuriOdyssey Gala September 28<\/li>\n<li>SANTA ANA: Santa Ana Zoo Zoofari August 24<\/li>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA: Tikifari Zoofari Ball August 24<\/li>\n<li>SANTA ROSA: Safari West Romp with the Beasts November 16<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Ice Cream Day, part of July&#8217;s National Ice Cream Month, falls on the third Sunday which is coming up! One of the hardest things about going on a diet is not eating ice cream. While common sense says you can eat diet versions and eat smaller portions, some of us have a passion that [&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\/26117"}],"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=26117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26118,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26117\/revisions\/26118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}