{"id":18496,"date":"2014-12-03T01:43:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T09:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18496"},"modified":"2014-12-03T01:43:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T09:43:59","slug":"swedish-and-danish-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/swedish-and-danish-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish and Danish Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/soledane.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This weekend two cities in California are celebrating Christmas in similar ways. The Danes in Solvang and Swedes in Kingsburg celebrate\u00a0holiday traditions originating from\u00a0native lands. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/trees\/kingsburg-tree-lighting.html\">Kingsburg&#8217;s annual Santa Lucia Festival<\/a> on Dec. 6, 2014 includes a Gingerbread House contest, parade, and the tradition of the oldest girl in the household dressing in a white robe with red sash, wearing a glowing crown of candles as she wakens the family with the Lucia song. In Solvang the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/trees\/solvang-julefest-tree-lighting.html\">Julefest Tree Lighting<\/a> on Dec. 5 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/parades\/solvang-julefest-parade.html\">Parade<\/a> on Dec. 6 are part of several weeks of celebrations that include a nativity pageant the following week.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the\u00a0actual Danish &amp; Swedish populations of these two cities? In Solvang Danes make up less than 20% (1 in 5) of the total population, while Kingsburg&#8217;s Swedish\u00a0people number around 25% (1 in 4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend two cities in California are celebrating Christmas in similar ways. The Danes in Solvang and Swedes in Kingsburg celebrate\u00a0holiday traditions originating from\u00a0native lands. Kingsburg&#8217;s annual Santa Lucia Festival on Dec. 6, 2014 includes a Gingerbread House contest, parade, and the tradition of the oldest girl in the household dressing in a white robe [&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\/18496"}],"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=18496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}