{"id":370147,"date":"2026-06-22T13:26:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/370147\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:26:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:26:58","slug":"a-decade-after-going-dark-sfs-dragon-boat-festival-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/370147\/","title":{"rendered":"A decade after going dark, SF\u2019s Dragon Boat Festival is back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published Jun. 22, 2026at6:09am<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">On a sunny Saturday afternoon, the typically placid Lake Merced Park located in San Francisco\u2019s quiet southwest was instead the scene of a showdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Biceps strained as teams of 20 paddlers pulled and pushed oars with precise timing, a seated guide at the head of the long, narrow dragon boats drumming to keep everyone on beat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">The teams raced 200 meters, a line of buoys on the other end marking the finish for the champions who roared in celebration as their vessel made it through first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Back on shore, the teams chatted amiably while devouring trays of roast pork, a fittingly celebratory marker of San Francisco\u2019s first Dragon Boat Festival in more than a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Jun. 22, 2026at6:09am On a sunny Saturday afternoon, the typically placid Lake Merced Park located in San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[18367,3573,13005,36210,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-370147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-asian-american","tag-china","tag-chinatown","tag-cool-factory","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}