{"id":26520,"date":"2020-01-22T20:47:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T20:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26520"},"modified":"2020-01-22T20:47:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T20:47:40","slug":"saturday-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/saturday-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"It Only Takes a Day to Chase the Blues Away &#8211; What&#8217;s Up on Saturday for People Who Are Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/tetfe.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are you struggling with the usual issues &#8212; health, wealth, harmony and lack of it such as poor health, not enough money and arguing or bad feelings and unhappiness deep inside your soul? You may have the blues &#8212; and you are not alone. Americans (and Californians) live in one of the richest countries in the world but recent studies show:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 50% of the population feels stressed<\/li>\n<li>47% of adults (double the number affected a few decades ago) feel lonely<\/li>\n<li>People are zoning out, focused on their gadgets<\/li>\n<li>The use of antidepressant drugs has surged over 400% in the last decade<\/li>\n<li>More than 60% of adults have no emergency savings and less than $1,000<\/li>\n<li>The majority of Americans are overweight or obese<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list goes on and on, but for anyone able to get out on a Saturday and soak up some sun, there are many events and festivals in California to lift your spirits. While the feel-good effects aren&#8217;t necessarily permanent or even long lasting, attending an event can help your well being. Some are free or affordable, you&#8217;ll be surrounded by people who are there to have fun, for sure, and just being out and about helps burn calories and contribute to health.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/calendar\/ja25.html\">This Saturday in California<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Events and admission subject to change<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ARCADIA: Southern California Camellia Council Spring Show<\/li>\n<li>AUBURN: The Auburn Winter Storytelling Festival &#8211; \u00a0free community event<\/li>\n<li>BODEGA BAY: Chowder Day in Bodega Bay<\/li>\n<li>CAMBRIA: Cambria Art &amp; Wine Festival<\/li>\n<li>CHICO: Snowgoose Festival<\/li>\n<li>COLOMA: Gold Discovery Day<\/li>\n<li>COSTA MESA:\u00a0Tet Festival<\/li>\n<li>FOUNTAIN VALLEY: OC Tet Festival<\/li>\n<li>INDIO: Southwest Arts Festival<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: SoCal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/los-angeles-free-museum-day.html\">Museum Day<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Free<\/li>\n<li>MONTEREY: Whalefest &#8211; Free<\/li>\n<li>PETALUMA: Lumacon<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO: Lunar Flower Fest &#8211; Free<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO: Northern California Home &amp; Landscape Expo<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: Farmer&#8217;s Insurance Open<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: Edwardian Ball<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE: Lunar New Year-Tet Festival &#8211; Free<\/li>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA: Film Festival<\/li>\n<li>WOODSIDE: Lunar New Year Celebration at Filoli<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you struggling with the usual issues &#8212; health, wealth, harmony and lack of it such as poor health, not enough money and arguing or bad feelings and unhappiness deep inside your soul? You may have the blues &#8212; and you are not alone. Americans (and Californians) live in one of the richest countries 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\/26520"}],"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=26520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26521,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26520\/revisions\/26521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}