{"id":15214,"date":"2014-01-27T02:19:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T10:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=15214"},"modified":"2014-01-27T02:19:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T10:19:31","slug":"another-new-year-make-my-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/another-new-year-make-my-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Another New Year? Make My Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/firedrag.jpg\" width=\"667\" height=\"329\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>In China an expected 3.6 billion trips take place during the 40-day Chinese New Year. \u00a0In\u00a0California, America&#8217;s Pacific Rim gateway is home to nearly six millions Asian residents who will celebrate Chinese \/Lunar New Year here at home or abroad.\u00a0The popularity of celebrations such as the Fire Dragon Dance (in photo) continues to grow \u00a0as \u00a0Asian-American communities and businesses embrace their roots. While celebrations vary slightly between Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodians and Koreans, there&#8217;s some cultural overlay and coming together to celebrate. Parades, dragon dances, beauty contests, concerts, fireworks and food are a few of the \u00a0attractions during the Lunar New Year. The public is welcome to attend these upcoming events!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/chinese-new-year.html\">2014 Chinese and Lunar New Year Events<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ALHAMBRA:\u00a0\u00a0Lunar New Year street festival<br \/>\nARCADIA: Chinese New Year Party<br \/>\nBERKELEY Solano Ave. Lunar New Year Celebration<br \/>\nCOSTA MESA: Lunar New Year Exhibit<br \/>\nCOSTA MESA: Little Saigon Tet Festival<br \/>\nLOS ANGELES: 115th Golden Dragon Parade &amp; Chinese New Year Festival<br \/>\nLOS ANGELES: Chinatown Temple Ceremony<br \/>\nMARYSVILLE: 134th Bok Kai Festival<br \/>\nROSEMEAD: Lunar New Year Family Festival<br \/>\nSACRAMENTO: Chinese New Year Celebration<br \/>\nSAN DIEGO: 32nd Annual Chinese New Year Food and Cultural Fair; Little Saigon San Diego Lunar New Year Tet Festival<br \/>\nSAN FRANCISCO: Chinese New Year Parade<br \/>\nSAN JOSE: Vietnamese Tet Festival<br \/>\nSAN LUIS OBISPO: Chinese New Year Banquet<br \/>\nSANTA MONICA: SAN LUIS OBISPO Chinese New Year Banquet<br \/>\nSAUSALITO: Chinese New Year Festival<br \/>\nWESTMINSTER Cho Hoa Flower Festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In China an expected 3.6 billion trips take place during the 40-day Chinese New Year. \u00a0In\u00a0California, America&#8217;s Pacific Rim gateway is home to nearly six millions Asian residents who will celebrate Chinese \/Lunar New Year here at home or abroad.\u00a0The popularity of celebrations such as the Fire Dragon Dance (in photo) continues to grow \u00a0as [&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\/15214"}],"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=15214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}