{"id":5601,"date":"2012-05-10T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=5601"},"modified":"2012-05-10T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T17:20:09","slug":"are-you-feeling-fair-month-of-may-fairs-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/are-you-feeling-fair-month-of-may-fairs-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Feeling Fair? Month of May Fairs in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/dixmay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos: Dixon May Fair this year held May 10-14, 2012, includes Cow Milking (or Pig Calling) Contest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/butler-amusements-brings-lifetime-of-joy-to-californians\/\">Butler Entertainment<\/a> carnival, and concerts featuring Kellie Pickler, American Idol winner, and other musical acts.<\/p>\n<p>Just mention the word, May, and you get people all excited in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/dixon.html\">Dixon, Calif<\/a>. Located outside Sacramento in the Central Valley, May signals the time to do something the townspeople have been doing for 136 years&#8211;having a parade&#8211;and later, a fair! Dixon May Day Parade this Saturday is cute &amp; corny, but patriotic to the core! Kids&#8217; entries in the small town parade include children pushing wheel barrels and carrying over-sized shovels. The fair this year includes musical acts Snoop Dogg and The Beat, plus a stage show with Larry the Cable Guy. the Demolition Derby is on closing night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/california-fairs-list.html\"><strong>See fairs in California<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dixon May Fair May 10 &#8211; 13\u00a0 Dixon, California dixonmayfair.com<\/li>\n<li>Porterville Fair May 16 &#8211; 20\u00a0 Porterville, California portervillefair.com<\/li>\n<li>Salinas Valley Fair May 17 &#8211; 20\u00a0 King City, California salinasvalleyfair.com<\/li>\n<li>Glenn County Fair May 17 &#8211; 20\u00a0 Orland, California glenncountyfair.org<\/li>\n<li>Silver Dollar Fair May 24 &#8211; 28 \u00a0 Chico, California silverdollarfair.org<\/li>\n<li>Coalinga Horned Toad Derby May 24 &#8211; 28\u00a0 Coalinga, California coalingachamber.com<\/li>\n<li>Garden Grove Strawberry Festival May 25 &#8211; 28\u00a0 Garden Grove, California\u00a0 strawberryfestival.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos: Dixon May Fair this year held May 10-14, 2012, includes Cow Milking (or Pig Calling) Contest, Butler Entertainment carnival, and concerts featuring Kellie Pickler, American Idol winner, and other musical acts. Just mention the word, May, and you get people all excited in Dixon, Calif. Located outside Sacramento in the Central Valley, May signals [&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\/5601"}],"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=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}