{"id":5406,"date":"2012-04-27T11:56:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T18:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=5406"},"modified":"2012-04-27T11:56:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T18:56:56","slug":"petaluma-butter-and-eggs-days-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/petaluma-butter-and-eggs-days-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Petaluma Butter and Eggs Days Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/petaluma-parade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Though there are\u00a0 many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-events.html\">many festivals and fairs<\/a> this weekend, if you find yourself saying, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t she the cutest little chick in town?&#8221;, you&#8217;re probably at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/petaluma-butter-eggs-festival.html\">Petaluma Butter &amp; Eggs Days Festiva<\/a>l held on Saturday, April 28, 2012.\u00a0 Day 1 includes the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/parades\/petaluma-butter-eggs-parade.html\"> town parade<\/a> and a day-long festival with food, music, vendors, themed contests and commemoration of Petaluma&#8217;s former distinction as the Egg Basket of the World during the early to mid-20th century. On Day 2, Sunday, April 29, stick around for the huge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/petaluma-antique-fair.html\">Antique Fair<\/a> held semi-annually on the streets of Petaluma.<\/p>\n<p>It used to be that when you visited Petaluma, you could smell that chicken smell in the air. For those who have had a chicken coop, been on a farm or purchased eggs at the farm, you know what we&#8217;re talking about.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"imgs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/petalum-contest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>California Egg Statistics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>California is 5th producer of eggs in nation (Iowa is 1st)<\/li>\n<li>5 billion eggs per year produced in California<\/li>\n<li>20 million laying hens<\/li>\n<li>$1 billion in sales generated<\/li>\n<li>Top egg producing counties include 7 counties in Southern to Central California<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though there are\u00a0 many many festivals and fairs this weekend, if you find yourself saying, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t she the cutest little chick in town?&#8221;, you&#8217;re probably at the Petaluma Butter &amp; Eggs Days Festival held on Saturday, April 28, 2012.\u00a0 Day 1 includes the town parade and a day-long festival with food, music, vendors, themed contests [&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\/5406"}],"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=5406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}