{"id":5509,"date":"2012-05-04T11:08:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T18:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=5509"},"modified":"2012-05-04T11:08:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T18:08:20","slug":"california-weekend-brews-zoos-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-weekend-brews-zoos-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Typical California Weekend &#8211;Festivals, Butterflies, Brews, Zoos, Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/maribute.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured are members of Mariposa Garden Club riding a float in the annual Butterfly Parade on Saturday, May 5, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s enough going on this weekend in California to fill a zoo. At the Living Desert&#8217;s Brew at the Zoo on May 5, funds are being raised by &#8220;Saving Wildlife One Beer at a Time.&#8221; Proceeds help the Palm Desert zoo care for over 500 animals. Location:\u00a0 47900 Portola Ave., Palm Desert, CA. livingdesert.org<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-events.html\">Great events<\/a>\u00a0 are coming your way for the 1st weekend in May 2012:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/cinco-de-mayo-california\/\">CINCO DE MAY<\/a> &#8211; Held throughout California, highlights include dancing, music and food<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/kernville-events.html\">KERNVILLE<\/a> &#8211; Rotary KRV Car Show and Pet Parade, May 5, rotarycarshow.com<\/li>\n<li>MARIPOSA &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/mariposa-butterfly-parade.html\">Butterfly Festival and Parade<\/a> (mariposa is Spanish for butterfly) May 4-6<\/li>\n<li>LOS BANOS &#8211; Merced County Spring Fair\u00a0 May 2-6, 2012 co.merced.ca.us<\/li>\n<li>MORRO BAY &#8211; Cruisin&#8217; Morro Bay Car Show May 4-6, morrobaycarshow.org<\/li>\n<li>CLEARLAKE &#8211; Heron Festival May 5,\u00a0 heronfestival.org<\/li>\n<li>COARSEGOLD\u00a0 &#8211; Coarsegold Rodeo May 5-6, 2012, thecoarsegoldrodeo.com<\/li>\n<li>ORANGE COUNTY &#8211; OC Marathon May 6, 2012, ocmarathon.com<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO &#8211; Norway Day May 6, 2012, norwayday.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured are members of Mariposa Garden Club riding a float in the annual Butterfly Parade on Saturday, May 5, 2012. There&#8217;s enough going on this weekend in California to fill a zoo. At the Living Desert&#8217;s Brew at the Zoo on May 5, funds are being raised by &#8220;Saving Wildlife One Beer at a Time.&#8221; [&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\/5509"}],"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=5509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}