{"id":21606,"date":"2015-11-17T01:22:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T09:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21606"},"modified":"2015-11-17T01:22:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T09:22:57","slug":"christmas-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/christmas-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Great California Christmas Destinations: San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sfxmas.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A week ago we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/sacramento-christmas.html\">proposed the idea<\/a>\u00a0that you don&#8217;t need New York when you can celebrate\u00a0Christmas in California. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/san-francisco-christmas-events.html\">San Francisco is a great Christmas\u00a0destination<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beach Blanket Babylon Holiday Show is always\u00a0over the top, including the huge hat!<\/li>\n<li>Reindeer and Zoo Lights at San Francisco Zoo offer holiday magic.<\/li>\n<li>Ice skating rinks return to the city by the bay where it rarely freezes.<\/li>\n<li>Blanche, Dorothy and the (drag) crew returns for the Golden Girls Christmas special.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s no place like San Francisco for Gingerbread displays.<\/li>\n<li>Christmas\u00a0trees &amp;\u00a0menorahs, boat parades and Filipino Parol Lantern Festival shine at night.<\/li>\n<li>The Great Dickens Fair at\u00a0Cow Palace is naughty and nice.<\/li>\n<li>Kung Pao Jewish Christmas serves up wildly funny entertainment in a Chinese restaurant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago we proposed the idea\u00a0that you don&#8217;t need New York when you can celebrate\u00a0Christmas in California. San Francisco is a great Christmas\u00a0destination: Beach Blanket Babylon Holiday Show is always\u00a0over the top, including the huge hat! Reindeer and Zoo Lights at San Francisco Zoo offer holiday magic. Ice skating rinks return to the city [&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\/21606"}],"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=21606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}