{"id":7182,"date":"2012-07-24T08:34:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T15:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=7182"},"modified":"2012-07-24T12:59:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T19:59:56","slug":"dragon-boat-races-not-a-drag-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/dragon-boat-races-not-a-drag-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Boat Races Not a Drag in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/dragbt2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The exciting sounds of drum beats and colorful boats adorned with fierce &#8220;dragon heads&#8221; race across the water this summer &amp; fall in annual traditions that invite the public to watch participants compete for prizes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/boats\/california-dragon-boat-racing.html\">Dragon boat races <\/a>require synchronization, a steady drum beat for inspiration, team cheers, and celebrations for those who win. California hosts a handful of Dragon Boat races that aren&#8217;t a drag.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Long Beach &#8211; Dragon Boat Festival July 28-29, 2012 at Marine Stadium, Long Beach, CA ladragonboat.com<\/li>\n<li>Crestline &#8211; Lake Gregory, Crestline Dragon Boat Races August 18-19, 2012. Races go from 10 a.m. to 3:30. Cost is $10 per boat \/ person, teams of 12,\u00a0 lgdragonboat.org<\/li>\n<li>South El Monte &#8211; LA Dragon Boat Festival will be held at Legg Lake Park, Whittier Narrows Recreation Area on August 18, 2012, ladragonboat.com<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco International Dragon Boat Festival will be September 15-16, 2012 at Treasure Island, San Francisco, sfdragonboat.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exciting sounds of drum beats and colorful boats adorned with fierce &#8220;dragon heads&#8221; race across the water this summer &amp; fall in annual traditions that invite the public to watch participants compete for prizes. Dragon boat races require synchronization, a steady drum beat for inspiration, team cheers, and celebrations for those who win. California [&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\/7182"}],"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=7182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}