{"id":18045,"date":"2014-11-19T00:24:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T08:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18045"},"modified":"2015-11-15T13:31:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T21:31:54","slug":"costa-mesa-snoopy-house-returns-to-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/costa-mesa-snoopy-house-returns-to-city-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Mesa Snoopy House Returns to City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story plays like a tale right out of\u00a0the pages of a Charlie Brown Christmas. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/costa-mesa-snoopy-christmas.html\">A man who spent\u00a0decades creating Peanuts characters<\/a> and scenes at his Costa Mesa residence\u00a0for the public to enjoy each holiday season, lost his home during the economic downturn and had to dispose of his priceless collection.\u00a0A near 50-year tradition for Costa Mesans and 80,000 annual visitors was going to disappear. But the city with a heart did something extraordinary. Officials\u00a0seized the opportunity to\u00a0become the stewards of the fantasy Christmas holiday collection\u00a0with interactive elements and motorized displays. \u00a0With ample parking and an enhanced light show that illuminates City Hall to music, the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/costa-mesa-snoopy-house.html\"> Snoopy House <\/a>\u00a0at City Hall has become a new annual tradition.\u00a0Costa Mesa City Hall is a few miles from Orange County Airport and directly across the street from the Orange County Fairgrounds. The event is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story plays like a tale right out of\u00a0the pages of a Charlie Brown Christmas. A man who spent\u00a0decades creating Peanuts characters and scenes at his Costa Mesa residence\u00a0for the public to enjoy each holiday season, lost his home during the economic downturn and had to dispose of his priceless collection.\u00a0A near 50-year tradition for [&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\/18045"}],"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=18045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}