{"id":503161,"date":"2026-10-21T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503161\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T08:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T08:00:22","slug":"california-seaweed-festival-begins-in-monterey-county-with-mermaids-robots-and-live-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503161\/","title":{"rendered":"California seaweed festival begins in Monterey County with mermaids, robots and live music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksbw.com\/news-team\/c672e131-0cf6-420f-86bb-9600babd4adc\" aria-label=\"Ricardo Tovar profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792569622_562_c672e131-0cf6-420f-86bb-9600babd4adc_1714417997.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Ricardo Tovar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The 7th annual California Seaweed Festival begins Wednesday throughout the Monterey Peninsula, celebrating marine plants with a variety of activities and presentations.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The festival brings together marine plant experts from around the world and will include film screenings, workshops, tours, and more.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Organizers said the event is not just focused on hard science, with presentations planned on mermaids, underwater robots, and using seaweed to make art.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The main day of the festival is Saturday at Custom House Plaza, where a stage will be set up for live music performances.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">See when the events will take place and what you need to know about each day <a href=\"https:\/\/californiaseaweedfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 7th annual California Seaweed Festival begins Wednesday throughout the Monterey Peninsula, celebrating marine plants with a variety&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2700,7,9,8,194694,194697,1043,10133,9400,194696,194695,194693,858,32531,30486,595,40925,71533],"class_list":["post-503161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-activity","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-california-seaweed-festival","tag-custom-house-plaza","tag-event","tag-film-screening","tag-live-music","tag-main-day","tag-marine-plant","tag-mermaid","tag-monterey-county","tag-presentation","tag-robot","tag-saturday","tag-variety","tag-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503161","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=503161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}