{"id":7480,"date":"2012-08-07T12:57:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T19:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=7480"},"modified":"2012-08-07T13:41:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T20:41:14","slug":"sandcastles-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/sandcastles-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandcastles Festivals, No Limit to Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/lbsand.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From California&#8217;s wind-swept desert dunes to its sun-kissed beaches, it&#8217;s amazing just how fascinated all ages of people are with sand! There are plenty of sand events to celebrate the public&#8217;s fascination with this natural resource that you&#8217;ll find along 1,000 miles of coast.\u00a0 This weekend the Long Beach Sandcastle Contest takes place on Granada Beach at Alfredo&#8217;s. There are adult categories, and a special sand pit for the toddlers to build their very own creations&#8211;no competition necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let them take your toys away, no matter what your age!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/sandcastle-festivals-contests.html\"> Get details on Sandcastle Contests &amp; Fests <\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CARMEL\u00a0 52nd Annual Sandcastle\u00a0 Sunday,\u00a0 September 9, 2012<\/li>\n<li>CORONA DEL MAR Sandcastle Contest\u00a0 51st annual October 7, 2012<\/li>\n<li>HUNTINGTON BEACH Sand Sculpture Contest September 15-16, 2012<\/li>\n<li>LONG BEACH\u00a0 Great Sand Sculpture Contest August 11 -12, 2012<\/li>\n<li>PACIFICA Fog Fest Sand Sculpture Contest September 29-30, 2012<\/li>\n<li>POINT REYES Sand Sculpture Contest at Drakes Beach September 2, 2012<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO Ocean Beach LEAP Sandcastle Contest October 2, 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From California&#8217;s wind-swept desert dunes to its sun-kissed beaches, it&#8217;s amazing just how fascinated all ages of people are with sand! There are plenty of sand events to celebrate the public&#8217;s fascination with this natural resource that you&#8217;ll find along 1,000 miles of coast.\u00a0 This weekend the Long Beach Sandcastle Contest takes place on Granada [&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\/7480"}],"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=7480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}