{"id":436567,"date":"2022-04-24T05:09:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T02:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/gilroy-garlic-festival-shutting-down-indefinitely\/"},"modified":"2022-04-24T05:09:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T02:09:05","slug":"gilroy-garlic-festival-shutting-down-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gilroy-garlic-festival-shutting-down-indefinitely\/","title":{"rendered":"#Gilroy Garlic Festival shutting down indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28b0539dbfb\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28b0539dbfb\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gilroy-garlic-festival-shutting-down-indefinitely\/#%E2%80%9CGilroy_Garlic_Festival_shutting_down_indefinitely%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Gilroy Garlic Festival shutting down indefinitely&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CGilroy_Garlic_Festival_shutting_down_indefinitely%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Gilroy Garlic Festival shutting down indefinitely&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/gilroy-garlic-festival.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>After more than four decades, one of the country\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gilroygarlicfestivalassociation.com\/history-1\">most famous food festivals<\/a> is shutting down for \u201cthe foreseeable future,\u201d organizers said. <\/p>\n<p>The Gilroy Garlic Festival is a massive, three-day event in the northern California city of Gilroy that celebrates the \u201cstinking rose\u201d and raises money for local charities. Organizers said the event is no longer feasible because of increased insurance costs and \u201clingering uncertainties\u201d from COVID-19. <\/p>\n<p>Gilroy officials were also putting \u201cprohibitive insurance requirements\u201d on the festival, Garlic Festival Association Past President Tom Cline and Vice President-Elect Cindy Fellows said in a statement first reported by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gilroydispatch.com\/garlic-festival-massive-events-no-longer-realistic\/?fbclid=IwAR2TWCQFehOUR9KIga_t2y-sS_d0nF6bFEIHlDYrGWbCYrQRxUu7zQ6dSmw\">the Gilroy Dispatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, we are left frustrated and dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointed,\u201d the statement read. \u201cOur world-renowned festival has helped showcase Gilroy and the South County for 42 years while raising many millions of dollars for local charities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe festival is part of our heritage,\u201d the statement from Cline and Fellows reads. \u201cNow we must ensure that it is part of our future. While it will never be the massive event of the past, a more intimate, local festival can still allow us to celebrate the community, garlic and all it inspires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event, which began in 1979 and holds <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guinnessworldrecords.com\/world-records\/74845-largest-garlic-festival#:~:text=The%20largest%20attendance%20at%20a,for%20children%20and%20adults%20alike.\">a Guinness World Record for the largest attendance at a garlic festival<\/a>, was plagued by a mass shooting in 2019 that left three people dead and 17 others hurt. It was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic. In 2021, organizers attempted to recreate the festival as a \u201cdrive-thru\u201d event, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/food\/article\/Gilroy-Garlic-Festival-canceled-indefinitely-17120001.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight\">according to SF Gate<\/a>.\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The Gilroy Garlic Festival is a massive, three-day event in the northern California city of Gilroy that celebrates the \u201cstinking rose\u201d and raises money for local charities&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":436568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/gilroy-garlic-festival.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[128380,13096,1545,43365,128410],"class_list":["post-436567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4-23-22","tag-california","tag-coronavirus","tag-festivals","tag-food-festivals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}