{"id":3501,"date":"2009-08-02T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/today-dragon-boats-invade-long-beach\/"},"modified":"2009-08-02T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T08:17:00","slug":"today-dragon-boats-invade-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/today-dragon-boats-invade-long-beach","title":{"rendered":"TODAY: Dragon (Boats) Invade Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/s_image1249114592-94875.jpg\" style=\"width: 310px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: black; border-right-color: black; border-bottom-color: black; border-left-color: black; margin-top: 7px; margin-right: 7px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 7px; \" align=\"right\" alt=\"\">One of the most unique events in the city each year is taking place this weekend down at Marine Stadium, as the Long Beach Dragon Boat Festival gets under way.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>One of the largest dragon boat races (it&#8217;s exactly what it sounds like) on the west coast, the weekend will also feature Chinese art demonstrations, Chinese acrobats, hip-hop, music, and martial arts performances.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The races take place from 9am till 5:30pm on Saturday, and from 9am till 3pm on Sunday, with the two championship races at 2:55pm and 3:05pm.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>If you&#8217;ve never been to the LB Dragon Boat Festival, you don&#8217;t want to miss it! For more info on activities, directions, and a full race schedule go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbdragonboat.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.lbdragonboat.com.\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Photo courtesy Ruy Wang, LBDragonBoat.com<o:p><\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most unique events in the city each year is taking place this weekend down at Marine Stadium, as the Long Beach Dragon Boat Festival gets under way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":16987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}