{"id":18649,"date":"2014-12-21T00:12:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T08:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18649"},"modified":"2014-12-21T00:12:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T08:12:42","slug":"first-day-of-winter-see-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/first-day-of-winter-see-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day of Winter &#8212; See &#8220;Spring&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/famouart.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today is the first day of Winter and the perfect time to see &#8220;Spring&#8221; (right image). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/art\/getty-spring-manet.html\">This\u00a0stunning portrait<\/a> of a Parisian actress by Edouard Manet sold for a record $65 million at auction in New York on Wednesday,\u00a0November 5, 2014. \u00a0Acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the painting went on public display a mere 20 days later on November 25 at The Getty (getty.edu) in Los Angeles. The painting hangs in the West Pavilion with the Museum&#8217;s collections of paintings by Degas, Monet, van Gogh and other nineteenth-century masters. Though the free admission Getty is normally\u00a0closed Monday and most major holidays, it\u00a0is open Monday December 22 and Monday December 29, 2014 as a special holiday gift to the public eager to see this famous portrait of\u00a0actress Jeanne Demarsy in a floral dress and bonnet as an evocation of spring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other special holiday museum invitations in California include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The whimsical, fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/pasadena-bunny-museum.html\">Bunny Museum in Pasadena<\/a>, which is open\u00a0Christmas Day, 2-6 p.m. Admission is $5.<\/li>\n<li>Contemporary Jewish Museum (cjm.org) in San Francisco is open on Christmas and it&#8217;s a Community Free Day, so all the galleries are open which means advance registration is highly recommended.<\/li>\n<li>Reuben H. Fleet Science Center (rhfleet.org) in San Diego&#8217;s Balboa Park is open Christmas Day, 11:30 a.m. &#8211; 5 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the first day of Winter and the perfect time to see &#8220;Spring&#8221; (right image). This\u00a0stunning portrait of a Parisian actress by Edouard Manet sold for a record $65 million at auction in New York on Wednesday,\u00a0November 5, 2014. \u00a0Acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum, the painting went on public display a mere [&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\/18649"}],"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=18649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}