{"id":7186,"date":"2012-07-24T08:40:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=7186"},"modified":"2012-08-31T01:10:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T08:10:39","slug":"weekend-festivals-sizzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/weekend-festivals-sizzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames and Flavors at Sizzling Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/garlicslide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are you hungry? Garlic, beer, crawfish, salsa and pears are a few of the foods at California festivals and events this weekend. In honor of National Ice Cream Month held each July, you can even try garlic flavored ice cream at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. For more tradtional tastes, gulp down a carton of premium vanilla ice cream at a contest usually held at \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/dragon-boat-races-not-a-drag-in-california\/\">Long Beach Dragon Boat Races<\/a>!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GILROY &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/garlicslide.jpg\">Gilroy Garlic Festival<\/a> July 27-29, 2012,\u00a0 gilroygarlicfestival.com<\/li>\n<li>HUNTINGTON BEACH &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/huntington-beach-usopen-surfing-festival.html\">US Open of Surfing<\/a> &amp; Beach Games July 28-August 5, 2012 usopenofsurfing.com<\/li>\n<li>SANTA PAULA &#8211; Citrus Balloon Classic Festival July 27-28, 2012, citrusclassicballoons.com<\/li>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/food-festivals-greek.html\">Santa Barbara Greek Festiva<\/a>l July 28-29, 2012 santabarbaragreekfestival.com<\/li>\n<li>OXNARD <a href=\"www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/oxnard-salsa-festival.html\">Salsa Festival<\/a> July 28-29, 2012 Free Admission!\u00a0\u00a0oxnardsalsafestival.com<\/li>\n<li>REDWOOD CITY <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/redwood-city-blues-festival.html\">PAL Blues Festiva<\/a>l July 28-29, 2012 FREE, palbluesfestival.com<\/li>\n<li>SANTA CRUZ &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/bier-ist-etwas-gutes-beer-is-good-at-california-beer-festivals\/\"> California Beer Festival<\/a> July 28, 2012, californiabeerfestival.com<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Central Avenue Jazz Festival July 28-29, 2012, centralavejazz.org<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH Crawfish Festival Saturday July 28 &#8211; 29, 2012, longbeachcrawfishfestival.com<\/li>\n<li>COURTLAND Pear Festival July 29, 2012, pearfair.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you hungry? Garlic, beer, crawfish, salsa and pears are a few of the foods at California festivals and events this weekend. In honor of National Ice Cream Month held each July, you can even try garlic flavored ice cream at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. For more tradtional tastes, gulp down a carton of premium [&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\/7186"}],"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=7186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}