{"id":9599,"date":"2012-11-13T12:11:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T20:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=9599"},"modified":"2012-11-13T13:35:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T21:35:56","slug":"thanksgiving-turkey-trots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/thanksgiving-turkey-trots\/","title":{"rendered":"26 Thanksgiving Turkey Trots in California: Find Yours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/turktrot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do the &#8216;Gobble Wobble&#8217; or best turkey call in\u00a0 Santa Monica this Fall! If you&#8217;re feeling like a turkey and you want to do the turkey trot, take note: wild turkeys are fast, graceful runners&#8211;they just don&#8217;t fly so well.<\/p>\n<p>Get in the turkey craze (growing by leaps and bounds) as you carve a path to the nearest turkey race this week or next in celebration of Thanksgiving. Annual turkey trots\u00a0 are 5 and 10K running events inviting the public to\u00a0 for a no-stress competitive contest on or around Thanksgiving Day.\u00a0 Some are just for fun, while others such as Father Joe&#8217;s Villages Thanksgiving Day Run in San Diego are fundraisers for food banks and homeless shelters . Participants at turkey trots range from kids to seniors, often\u00a0 dressed in silly turkey costumes &amp; hats ! When held on Thanksgiving Day as most turkey trots are, the events try to finish before Noon so you can head home and eat turkey!\u00a0 See the list: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/thanksgiving-events.html\"> Turkey Trots 2012<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do the &#8216;Gobble Wobble&#8217; or best turkey call in\u00a0 Santa Monica this Fall! If you&#8217;re feeling like a turkey and you want to do the turkey trot, take note: wild turkeys are fast, graceful runners&#8211;they just don&#8217;t fly so well. Get in the turkey craze (growing by leaps and bounds) as you carve a path [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599"}],"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=9599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}