{"id":10258,"date":"2012-12-22T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=10258"},"modified":"2012-12-22T00:16:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T08:16:00","slug":"santa-never-leaves-12-cities-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/santa-never-leaves-12-cities-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Never Leaves 12 Cities in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sancome.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each year on December 24 (Christmas Eve) Santa arrives in a flash, and then he&#8217;s gone. His white beard, rosy cheeks, and red velvet garb with black boots (over-the-top fireman&#8217;s attire) all make this endearing character the kind of person you wish would stick around your town, especially considering the fact that he brings gifts for all. There are 12 &#8220;Santa&#8221; cities in California where the Big Kahuna is fondly remembered and honored on a daily basis. Bay Area, Central Coast and Southern California cities with Santa in their name include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/santa-ana.html\">Santa Ana<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/santa-barbara.html\">Santa Barbara<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/santa-clara.html\">Santa Clara<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/santa-clarita.html\">Santa Clarita<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/santa-cruz.html\">Santa Cruz<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/santa-fe-springs.html\">Santa Fe Springs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/santa-maria.html\">Santa Maria<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/santa-monica.html\">Santa Monica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/santa-nella.html\">Santa Nella<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/santa-paula.html\">Santa Paula<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/santa-rosa.html\">Santa Rosa<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/santa-ynez.html\">Santa Ynez<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year on December 24 (Christmas Eve) Santa arrives in a flash, and then he&#8217;s gone. His white beard, rosy cheeks, and red velvet garb with black boots (over-the-top fireman&#8217;s attire) all make this endearing character the kind of person you wish would stick around your town, especially considering the fact that he brings gifts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}