{"id":22080,"date":"2016-02-11T01:13:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T09:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22080"},"modified":"2016-02-11T01:13:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T09:13:15","slug":"valentines-dinner-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/valentines-dinner-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day = Dinner, Movie, Gondola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/napgondo.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t think about taxes or paying off the Christmas credit card bills right now. There&#8217;s someone out there expecting that you treat them special this weekend on Valentine&#8217;s Day &#8212; no negotiations. According to the National Retail Federation American&#8217;s are prepared to spend a record $19.7 billion on Valentine&#8217;s gifts. Close to 55%\u00a0of consumers are celebrating to the tune of \u00a0$147, up $4.50 from a year ago. If you care to shop local there are a variety of unique film festivals, wineries serving dinners, chocolates and other special perks, gondola rides, boat cruises, plane rides and sports activities, plus and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/february-festivals.html\">many festivals<\/a> to celebrate what promises to be a fantastic weekend weather-wise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Hot?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Candy 50%<\/li>\n<li>Greeting card 48%<\/li>\n<li>Restaurant &amp; a movie 38% or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/casinos\/valentines-concerts.html\">concert<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Flowers 38%<\/li>\n<li>Jewelry 20%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t think about taxes or paying off the Christmas credit card bills right now. There&#8217;s someone out there expecting that you treat them special this weekend on Valentine&#8217;s Day &#8212; no negotiations. According to the National Retail Federation American&#8217;s are prepared to spend a record $19.7 billion on Valentine&#8217;s gifts. Close to 55%\u00a0of consumers are [&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\/22080"}],"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=22080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}