{"id":4394,"date":"2012-02-24T11:41:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T19:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=4394"},"modified":"2012-02-24T11:41:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T19:41:15","slug":"ripon-almond-blossom-festival-parade-and-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/ripon-almond-blossom-festival-parade-and-carnival\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripon Almond Blossom Festival, Parade and Carnival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/riponpar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s a reason the people in Ripon, California seem so healthy you can blame it on almonds. Home to farms such as 4th Generation Almond Farmers, Ripon is not a very big city (less than 15,000) in the San Joaquin Valley, but it&#8217;s lucky to have the ideal climate for almond growing. Each spring the town puts on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/ripon-almond-festival.html\">Ripon Almond Blossom Festival &amp; Parade<\/a> which includes a beauty contest with a queen and her court, a parade on Saturday, and a big carnival all weekend long. Produced by Ripon Chamber of Commerce ( riponchamber.org), the event attracts people from all around the area to celebrate. It is held Feb. 23 &#8211; 26, 2012. The Almond Blossom Festival Parade takes place February 25, 2012\u00a0 at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/almonds.html\">Almonds offer many benefits<\/a> and California is lucky to be the largest US specialty crop exporter. Almonds are California&#8217;s largest tree nut crop in total dollar value and acreage. If you haven&#8217;t begun eating almonds, you might try them. California offers the freshest crops and the best way to enjoy them is to take a drive to the farms where they are grown and purchase them fresh at roadside stands. Talk about melt in your mouth!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s a reason the people in Ripon, California seem so healthy you can blame it on almonds. Home to farms such as 4th Generation Almond Farmers, Ripon is not a very big city (less than 15,000) in the San Joaquin Valley, but it&#8217;s lucky to have the ideal climate for almond growing. Each spring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394"}],"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=4394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}