{"id":7418,"date":"2012-08-03T11:42:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T18:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=7418"},"modified":"2012-08-03T13:33:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T20:33:10","slug":"lawnmower-races-in-california-a-grass-roots-path-carving-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/lawnmower-races-in-california-a-grass-roots-path-carving-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawnmower Races in California &#8211; A Grass Roots, Path-Carving Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/lawnride.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lawnmower races in California aren&#8217;t BIG STUFF yet. But maybe they will be one day.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine the thinking that went into the first lawnmower races? Somebody was probably mowing\u00a0 their big, boring acreage of grass &amp; weeds when they fantasized about revving up that motor and making that machine fly! The concept took wings and has become a popular sport at festivals and fairs&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/california-lawnmower-racing.html\">read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAWNMOWER RACES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ANZA &#8211; Anza Racing Mowers, Anza, Calif. Race season consists of monthly races March-September<\/li>\n<li>DIXON &#8211; Sac Valley Mower Races\u00a0 August 4, 2012<\/li>\n<li>UKIAH &#8211; Redwood Empire Fair Aug. 2-5, 2012. Includes Motorhome Demolition Derby and Lawnmower Races, redwoodempirefair.com<\/li>\n<li>WILLOW CREEK &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/big-foot-days-festival.html\">Big Foot Days<\/a> September 1, 2012, willowcreekchamber.com<\/li>\n<li>ROSEVILLE &#8211; Lawnmower races at Placer County Fair held in June, placercountyfair.org<\/li>\n<li>LOS BANOS &#8211; Merced County Fair Lawnmower Racing usually in May-June,\u00a0 co.merced.ca.us<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawnmower races in California aren&#8217;t BIG STUFF yet. But maybe they will be one day. Can you imagine the thinking that went into the first lawnmower races? Somebody was probably mowing\u00a0 their big, boring acreage of grass &amp; weeds when they fantasized about revving up that motor and making that machine fly! The concept took [&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\/7418"}],"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=7418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}