{"id":11312,"date":"2013-03-10T03:24:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T10:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=11312"},"modified":"2013-03-10T03:24:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T10:24:09","slug":"jump-over-the-bonfire-time-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/jump-over-the-bonfire-time-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Jump Over the Bonfire Time Once Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/bonjump.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BERKELEY, CALIF. &#8212; One of the biggest Persian celebrations in California takes place in Berkeley on Tuesday, March 12, 2013, at Persian Center, 2029 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/berkeley-persian-festival.html\">Jump Over the Bonfire<\/a> is part of the annual celebration you are invited to share in. Time: 6 -10 p.m. Free. (510) 548.5335. persiancenter.org.<\/p>\n<p>In Newport Beach where Persian friends and families gather around the bonfire rings at Corona del Mar State Beach to jump over them in their annual tradition, it may be their last season to celebrate the new year if the Coastal Commission says the city of Newport Beach can<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/newport-beach\/beach-bonfire-stories.html\"> get rid of the rings<\/a>. The city council there voted unanimously to remove them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERKELEY, CALIF. &#8212; One of the biggest Persian celebrations in California takes place in Berkeley on Tuesday, March 12, 2013, at Persian Center, 2029 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA. Jump Over the Bonfire is part of the annual celebration you are invited to share in. Time: 6 -10 p.m. Free. (510) 548.5335. persiancenter.org. In Newport Beach [&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\/11312"}],"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=11312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}