{"id":19541,"date":"2015-02-02T01:02:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T09:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=19541"},"modified":"2015-02-02T01:02:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T09:02:31","slug":"blessing-dolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/blessing-dolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessing Dolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/lamex.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s 40 days after Christmas &#8212; what time is it? It&#8217;s time to bless the children&#8217;s dolls. Candlemas, a\u00a0festival that includes a traditional blessing of elaborately dressed dolls depicting the presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple takes place each Feb. 2. In Los Angeles the event is one of many annual celebrations the public is invited to see and experience free. From the blessing of dolls on Olvera Street to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/olvera-street-blessing-of-the-animals.html\">blessing of animals<\/a> in the Plaza in April, the events generally get large turnouts and many participants. Here&#8217;s a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/los-angeles-hispanic-festivals.html\"> list of some great tourists things<\/a> to see and do in L.A.!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 40 days after Christmas &#8212; what time is it? It&#8217;s time to bless the children&#8217;s dolls. Candlemas, a\u00a0festival that includes a traditional blessing of elaborately dressed dolls depicting the presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple takes place each Feb. 2. In Los Angeles the event is one of many annual celebrations 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\/19541"}],"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=19541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}