{"id":18612,"date":"2014-12-17T01:21:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T09:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18612"},"modified":"2014-12-17T01:21:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T09:21:21","slug":"san-jose-christmas-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/san-jose-christmas-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Christmas Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sjxmap.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Christmas in the Park returns to San Jose for its 35th year!<\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s third most populated city (under Los Angeles and San Diego) with over one\u00a0million residents wasn&#8217;t always so big&#8211;in 1960s there were a mere 200,000 residents. It&#8217;s really amazing that San Jose manages to retain some of its family focus and small town feel apparent during the holidays when old-fashioned celebrations return for yet another season. The week before Christmas when\u00a0\u00a0kids are off school, families take a break and relatives come to visit, here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-jose-christmas.html\">fun things to take them to see in San Jose<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Free Christmas in the Park, a perennial favorite, celebrates 35 years of\u00a0tradition with more than 40 musical and animated displays<\/li>\n<li>Vasona Park (Los Gatos) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/los-gatos-fantasy-lights.html\">Fantasy of Lights<\/a> drive through lights display through Dec. 24<\/li>\n<li>Winchester Mystery House Spirit of Christmas Tours through Dec. 28<\/li>\n<li>Free\u00a0 Historic Trolley Rides Feel it all over again on VTA&#8217;s Historic Trolley through Dec. 27, 2014<\/li>\n<li>Winter Wonderland downtown amusement rides through Jan. 1, 2015<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/icerinks\/san-jose.html\">Downtown Ice<\/a> skating rink through Jan. 11, 2015<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/nutcracker-ballet\/san-jose-ballet-nutcracker.html\">Ballet San Jose&#8217;s The Nutcracker<\/a> through Dec. 28<\/li>\n<li>Another Lonely Christmas\u00a0featuring The Purple Ones &#8211; A 10-Piece Tribute To Prince,\u00a0Dec. 19<\/li>\n<li>Truce: A Christmas Wish from the Great War, play, through Dec. 21<\/li>\n<li>The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, play, through Dec. 20<\/li>\n<li>A Christmas Carol\u00a0 32nd annual production at Northside Theatre through Dec. 28<\/li>\n<li>Season of Hope Cathedral Performance Series\u00a0at\u00a0Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph\u00a0through Dec. 23<\/li>\n<li>Santana Row Holiday Wine and Dine Around Dec. 23, $15<\/li>\n<li>The Christmas Comedy Extravaganza Dec. 17 at the Improv<\/li>\n<li>HARK! 13th Annual Holiday Show and Sale\u00a0with over 60 artists from KALEID through Jan. 17<\/li>\n<li>Mission San Jose Las Posadas through Dec. 23<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas in the Park returns to San Jose for its 35th year! California&#8217;s third most populated city (under Los Angeles and San Diego) with over one\u00a0million residents wasn&#8217;t always so big&#8211;in 1960s there were a mere 200,000 residents. It&#8217;s really amazing that San Jose manages to retain some of its family focus and small town [&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\/18612"}],"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=18612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}