{"id":18543,"date":"2014-12-08T03:32:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18543"},"modified":"2014-12-08T03:32:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:32:16","slug":"gingerbread-houses-castles-woodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/gingerbread-houses-castles-woodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingerbread Houses, Castles, Woodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/fairging.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 2014 crop of gingerbread castles and creations are on public display in hotels and museums throughout California. Pictured: \u00a0Fairmont Hotel San Francisco&#8217;s famous annual two-story high Victorian house decorated with more than 1 ton of royal icing; Newport Beach&#8217;s Island Hotel annual Gingerbread Lobby Display this year is a beachin&#8217; woody car surrounded by gift boxes, all made of gingerbread. Blame the Brothers Grimm\u00a0fairy tale &#8220;Hansel and Gretel&#8221; for what&#8217;s now the gingerbread holiday craze. \u00a0Early German settlers brought \u00a0lebkuchenhaeusle &#8211; gingerbread house &#8211; traditions to the Americas. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/gingerbread-displays.html\">Here are some gingerbread houses to see in 2014!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2014 crop of gingerbread castles and creations are on public display in hotels and museums throughout California. Pictured: \u00a0Fairmont Hotel San Francisco&#8217;s famous annual two-story high Victorian house decorated with more than 1 ton of royal icing; Newport Beach&#8217;s Island Hotel annual Gingerbread Lobby Display this year is a beachin&#8217; woody car surrounded by [&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\/18543"}],"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=18543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}