{"id":18582,"date":"2014-12-13T02:08:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T10:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18582"},"modified":"2014-12-13T02:08:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T10:08:51","slug":"california-beach-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-beach-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"California Beach Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sannaple.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last year we <a href=\"www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/vintage-christmas-naples.html\">featured creative holiday displays<\/a> from Naples Island (Long Beach) resident Bill Williams. Whether presenting a winter scene depicting\u00a0Big Bear with a small cabin\u00a0that people could sit in and take pictures, or the Lights &amp; Action of a TV Land Christmas, the design work has always been memorable and unique. This year the new display includes Beach Santa with reindeer, teddy bears enjoying milk &amp; cookies and a mural of the lively <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/boat-parades\/naples.html\">Naples Boat Parade<\/a> set to take place this evening, Dec. 13, 2014. We met the co-creator of these award-winning displays, Gordon Newsom, a Realtor with Crosby Doe Assoc. specializing in noteworthy\u00a0properties for sale. Newsom said that\u00a0he and Bill Williams\u00a0hired someone to paint the mural seen in the photo above.\u00a0This fun decor and others\u00a0can be\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/nose-prints-welcome.html\">viewed during the holidays at homes on East Appian Way<\/a> near the intersection of\u00a0The Toledo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we featured creative holiday displays from Naples Island (Long Beach) resident Bill Williams. Whether presenting a winter scene depicting\u00a0Big Bear with a small cabin\u00a0that people could sit in and take pictures, or the Lights &amp; Action of a TV Land Christmas, the design work has always been memorable and unique. This year the [&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\/18582"}],"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=18582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}