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In California, the majority of 450+ cities and municipalities host festivities tied to Easter such as egg hunts, Eggstravaganzas, bunny breakfasts and spring festivals<\/a> with egg \u00a0hunts. It is not surprising, considering that the United States has more Christians than anywhere on Earth–approx. 76% of the population. Though several cities have discontinued their annual Easter celebrations this year and municipalities have removed the word, ‘Easter’, from special egg & candy hunting events (with a few exceptions,) practically every city calendar lists the religious holiday.<\/p>\n Question:<\/strong> What do \u00a0bunnies and eggs have to do with Easter, anyway? There’s another side to Easter beyond eggs, bunnies and Christianity–and it involves money. \u00a0The National Retail Federation, which tracks consumer spending for holidays such as Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s & Father’s Day and Easter, says: “We’re on a budget for Easter holiday 2013–spending is flat and bunnies are being frugal this year.” \u00a0Read more about Easter spending<\/a>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In California, the majority of 450+ cities and municipalities host festivities tied to Easter such as egg hunts, Eggstravaganzas, bunny breakfasts and spring festivals with egg \u00a0hunts. It is not surprising, considering that the United States has more Christians than anywhere on Earth–approx. 76% of the population. Though several cities have discontinued their annual Easter […]<\/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\/11519"}],"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=11519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnswer:<\/strong> \u00a0Before Christianity existed, eggs, rabbits and hares were symbols of the rising fertility of the earth at the March Equinox.<\/p>\n