{"id":22107,"date":"2016-02-16T23:08:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T07:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22107"},"modified":"2016-02-16T23:12:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T07:12:38","slug":"top10-parades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/top10-parades\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade Among Top 10 in World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/chipa.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. &#8212; Named One of the Top Ten Parades in the World by the International Festivals and Events\u00a0Association (IFEA), the Southwest Airlines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/parades\/san-francisco-chinese-new-year.html\">Chinese New Year Parade<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 begins with a bang\u00a0at 5:15 p.m. Firecrackers and the\u00a0268-foot\u00a0long Golden Dragon animated by 100 men and women electrify the crowd\u00a0at Market &amp; 2nd Street, signaling the time has come to celebrate the Year of the Monkey in a 2 hour and\u00a045\u00a0minute journey through Chinatown. Visible thanks to staged lighting along the route, lion dancers, illuminated floats, folk dancers,\u00a0marching bands, stilt walkers and Chinese acrobats entertain in a tradition\u00a0San Francisco has embraced for more than 150 years. If you go, you can&#8217;t go wrong booking a <a href=\"http:\/\/arestravel.com\/5454_hotel-info_h3733.html\">room at Hotel Nikko<\/a>, just a few blocks from the parade launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. &#8212; Named One of the Top Ten Parades in the World by the International Festivals and Events\u00a0Association (IFEA), the Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year Parade\u00a0on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 begins with a bang\u00a0at 5:15 p.m. Firecrackers and the\u00a0268-foot\u00a0long Golden Dragon animated by 100 men and women electrify the crowd\u00a0at Market &amp; 2nd [&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\/22107"}],"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=22107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}