{"id":5176,"date":"2012-04-30T12:17:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T19:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=5176"},"modified":"2012-09-27T23:23:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T06:23:38","slug":"breakfast-with-your-mayor-riding-horseback-surfboard-or-with-pancakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/breakfast-with-your-mayor-riding-horseback-surfboard-or-with-pancakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast with Your Mayor Riding Horseback, Surfboard or with Pancakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/surfpra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Blessing of the Waves, a non-denominational event, invites everyone who loves the ocean to pay homage.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you know your city&#8217;s mayor?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While most California chambers of commerce host a &#8220;State of the City&#8221; event featuring the mayor,\u00a0 &#8220;Breakfast with the Mayor&#8221; can be a little different. From prayers &amp; pancakes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/good-horsekeeping-in-rolling-hills-estates-calif\/\">saddle up &amp; ride<\/a>, variety is the spice of life. In some seaside cities they actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stockteam.com\/huntington-beach\/blessing-the-waves-photo.html\">bless the waves<\/a>, then take a surfboard ride!<\/p>\n<p>Especially popular is the National Day of Prayer (Thursday, May 3, 2012) celebrated with the mayor. There are over 400 events in California during the 61st annual celebration (nationaldayofprayer.org).<\/p>\n<p>How many mayors are there in California?\u00a0 A rough estimate would be just over 450 mayors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Blessing of the Waves, a non-denominational event, invites everyone who loves the ocean to pay homage. Do you know your city&#8217;s mayor? While most California chambers of commerce host a &#8220;State of the City&#8221; event featuring the mayor,\u00a0 &#8220;Breakfast with the Mayor&#8221; can be a little different. From prayers &amp; pancakes to saddle up [&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\/5176"}],"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=5176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}