{"id":18562,"date":"2014-12-10T01:48:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T09:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18562"},"modified":"2014-12-10T01:48:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T09:48:35","slug":"fantastic-weekend-holiday-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/fantastic-weekend-holiday-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Weekend Holiday Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/xmarkt.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everybody wants rain in California &#8212; but not on two Saturdays before Christmas. Hundreds of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/december-festivals.html\">outdoor markets, arts &amp; crafts fairs and holiday festivals<\/a>\u00a0are counting on no rain &#8212; and it looks like they\u00a0may get lucky if weather forecasts\u00a0accurately predict\u00a0a\u00a0storm moving through the state, clearing out on Friday, and leaving Saturday partly cloudy to sunny.<\/p>\n<h3>Weekend Highlights<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rose Bowl Flea Market in Pasadena<\/strong> Dec. 13, 2014. Over 2,500 vendors and 20,000 monthly in one of the most famous markets in the world frequented by celebrities (photo above &#8211; 2nd from right).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mountain View German Holiday Market<\/strong> Dec. 13 at Mountain View City Hall Plaza. With incredible success last year the German Market features a full day of entertainment (handbells, carols, German holiday music and dance.) Unique crafted items include original Steinbach wooden nutcrackers and ornaments (photo above-right).<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>San Diego Holiday Ray @ Night<\/strong> in North Park Dec. 13. Eclectic Art and Culture neighborhood (photo above-left).<\/li>\n<li><strong>San Francisco Bazaar Holiday Show<\/strong> Dec. 13-14. Locally produced art and craft show featuring over 180 handmade artisans and food makers (photo above-2nd from left)\u00a0showcase their wonderful holiday gifts with\u00a0indoor comfort at\u00a0Fort Mason Center&#8217;s Herbst Pavilion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody wants rain in California &#8212; but not on two Saturdays before Christmas. Hundreds of outdoor markets, arts &amp; crafts fairs and holiday festivals\u00a0are counting on no rain &#8212; and it looks like they\u00a0may get lucky if weather forecasts\u00a0accurately predict\u00a0a\u00a0storm moving through the state, clearing out on Friday, and leaving Saturday partly cloudy to sunny. [&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\/18562"}],"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=18562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}