{"id":18609,"date":"2014-12-16T03:53:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T11:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18609"},"modified":"2014-12-16T03:53:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T11:53:10","slug":"very-merry-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/very-merry-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Very Merry San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sfxmasda.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s always something to see and do in San Francisco but the holidays are exceptional. Here are few things leading up to the Christmas countdown, plus Christmas Day fun!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>San Francisco Holiday Cheer<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Christmas with San Francisco Symphony &#8211;sfsymphony.org features Colors of Christmas December 15-17; Handel\u2019s Messiah Dec. 18-20; Family-friendly Christmas Spectacular Featuring A Charlie Brown Christmas Dec. 19-24; Seth MacFarlane New Year\u2019s Event Dec. 31<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/san-francisco-dickens-fair.html\">Great Dickens Christmas Fair<\/a>\u00a0 through Dec. 21<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/gingerbread-displays.html\">Gingerbread Displays<\/a> at Westin St. Francis, The Fairmon, and the Palace Hotel<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/nutcracker-ballet\/san-francisco-ballet.html\">San Francisco Ballet The Nutcracker<\/a>\u00a0 December through Dec. 29<\/li>\n<li>Trannyshack&#8217;s annual Christmas play &#8211;trannyshack.com December 20 features Boulet Brothers and Heklina<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/chanticleer-christmas.html\">A Chanticleer Christmas<\/a>\u00a0 December 21<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco Gay Men&#8217;s Chorus &#8211;sfgmc.org Home for the Holidays concert Dec. 24 at Castro Theatre<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/kung-pao-kosher-comedy.html\">Kung Pao Kosher Comedy <\/a>\u00a0December 24-26, 2014<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-francisco-beach-blanket-babylon-christmas.html\">Beach Blanket Babylon<\/a>&#8216;s Seasonal Extravaganza through December 31<\/li>\n<li>Skate: All three Downtown San Francisco ice skating rinks (Union Square, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/icerinks\/san-francisco-embaracadero.html\">Embarcadero Center<\/a> and Yerba Buena Gardens) are open<\/li>\n<li>Zoo: The Reindeer Romp at the San Francisco Zoo runs from Nov. 17 through Jan. 1, 2015 &#8211;sfzoo.org<\/li>\n<li>Hornblower Dinner &amp; Supper Cruises glide under the Golden Gate Bridge, even on Christmas day with dinner &amp; supper options &#8211;hornblower.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s always something to see and do in San Francisco but the holidays are exceptional. Here are few things leading up to the Christmas countdown, plus Christmas Day fun! San Francisco Holiday Cheer Christmas with San Francisco Symphony &#8211;sfsymphony.org features Colors of Christmas December 15-17; Handel\u2019s Messiah Dec. 18-20; Family-friendly Christmas Spectacular Featuring A Charlie [&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\/18609"}],"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=18609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}