{"id":3199,"date":"2016-08-22T08:50:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T15:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2016-08-22T08:50:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T15:50:52","slug":"mellow-participants-at-alcohol-free-raftopia-event-on-american-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3199","title":{"rendered":"Mellow participants at alcohol-free \u2018Raftopia\u2019 event on American River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mcclatchy-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article96898957.html\/video-embed\" width=\"840\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"mcclatchy-embed\">\n<p>Hundreds gathered Saturday morning on the banks of the American River in Rancho Cordova for \u201cRaftopia,\u201d a nonpermitted event that prompted a one-day alcohol ban.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. A.J. Bennett, a Sacramento County Regional Parks ranger, said the Rancho Cordova Police Department, Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Department, volunteer mounted officers and California Department of Fish and Wildlife personnel assisted rangers Saturday to ensure participants had a safe day on the river.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe water will wear a swimmer out in a hurry,\u201d Bennett said.<\/p>\n<p>Park ranger Greg Stelzner said the Saturday crowd was mellow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a good crowd. \u2026 A couple of church groups came through,\u201d Stelzner said. Rafters were cooperative, either throwing beer away or taking it back to their parked vehicles.<\/p>\n<div>\nMore at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/article96929727.html#storylink=cpy\">SacBee.com<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds gathered Saturday morning on the banks of the American River in Rancho Cordova for \u201cRaftopia,\u201d a nonpermitted event that prompted a one-day alcohol ban. Sgt. A.J. Bennett, a Sacramento County Regional Parks ranger, said the Rancho Cordova Police Department, Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Department, volunteer mounted officers and California Department of Fish and Wildlife personnel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/?p=3199\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mellow participants at alcohol-free \u2018Raftopia\u2019 event on American River<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,3,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-trail","category-events","category-rafting","category-safety","category-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3200,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions\/3200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanriverwildlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}