{"id":17678,"date":"2014-10-08T02:19:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T09:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17678"},"modified":"2014-10-08T02:19:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T09:19:39","slug":"italian-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/italian-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/itsafest.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re in San Diego (left) or San Francisco (right,) this weekend is an Italian delight.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-diego-little-italy-festa.html\">San Diego&#8217;s Little Italy Festival<\/a> takes to the streets for a delightful celebration where you can snack on hot foot-long Italian sausages, watch an Italian wedding dance and listen to crooners sing on stage. There&#8217;s a street painting festival, Bocce ball contest and more&#8211;all on Oct. 12, 2014.\u00a0\u00a0 In San Francisco the weekend begins on Oct. 11 with the Madonna del Lume Celebration and Grand Ball. On Oct. 12 join in the antics, the music and the festive floats at the Italian Heritage Columbus Day Parade. The nation&#8217;s oldest Italian-American parade and community celebration winds its way from Fisherman&#8217;s Wharf to North Beach. The Parade begins at 12:30 p.m. at Jefferson &amp;\u00a0Stockton Streets in Fisherman&#8217;s Wharf, proceeds south through North Beach on Columbus Avenue, and ends in Washington Square in front of Sts. Peter and Paul Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you&#8217;re in San Diego (left) or San Francisco (right,) this weekend is an Italian delight.\u00a0San Diego&#8217;s Little Italy Festival takes to the streets for a delightful celebration where you can snack on hot foot-long Italian sausages, watch an Italian wedding dance and listen to crooners sing on stage. There&#8217;s a street painting festival, Bocce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/17678"}],"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=17678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}