{"id":18652,"date":"2014-12-21T02:38:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T10:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18652"},"modified":"2014-12-21T02:38:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T10:38:31","slug":"california-priceless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-priceless\/","title":{"rendered":"California Priceless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/xmagif.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For last minute holiday shoppers who are just stumped and possibly even a little disheartened by the crass commercialism of contemporary Christmas gift giving, there are many presents\u00a0that help special causes while offering benefit to recipients. \u00a0Priceless experiences such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/things-to-see\/biggest-tallest-trees.html\">seeing the world&#8217;s biggest trees<\/a> or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/catalina-island.html\">experiencing\u00a0Catalina Island<\/a> can only be had in California. Passes to state parks, national parks, local beaches, museums, access to buses and public transportation, nonprofit organizations that produce concerts,\u00a0plays and performing arts, all go a long way in providing entertainment, education and exposure to the great outdoors. Such gifts in the right hands\u00a0can change lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CALIFORNIA PRICELESS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>California State Parks gifts $5-200.<\/strong>\u00a0Annual parking and admission passes to parks, t-shirts, ball caps, key chains, souvenir California poppy tote bags, travel and history books, DVDs and more at the state parks online store, store.parks.ca.gov<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Park Service Annual Pass $80<\/strong>. Although National Parks touts most of the parks are free, the best ones in California charge a fee. Yosemite NP, Sequoia Kings Canyon NP, Joshua Tree NP and Cabrillo National Monument are among those that charge. \u00a0See nps.gov<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monterey Bay Aquarium Membership $75.<\/strong> Get unlimited admission to the Aquarium for a year, express entry through Member Entrance, 10% discount in store, and exclusive invitations to events. Regular\u00a0admission is $39.95. montereybayaquarium.org<\/li>\n<li><strong>Catalina Express Gift Card $100<\/strong>. Get free upgrade on your trip to the Islands with purchase by Jan. 4, 2015. See\u00a0 shop.catalinaexpress.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Tech Museum of Innovation Membership $40<\/strong>. Free admission to galleries for one year. thetech.org<\/li>\n<li><strong>LA Phil Gift Cards $20 or more<\/strong>. Purchase gifts in the store, buy concert tickets and more, at laphilstore.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For last minute holiday shoppers who are just stumped and possibly even a little disheartened by the crass commercialism of contemporary Christmas gift giving, there are many presents\u00a0that help special causes while offering benefit to recipients. \u00a0Priceless experiences such as seeing the world&#8217;s biggest trees or\u00a0experiencing\u00a0Catalina Island can only be had in California. Passes to [&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\/18652"}],"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=18652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}