{"id":23323,"date":"2016-10-17T20:37:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T03:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23323"},"modified":"2016-10-17T23:37:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T06:37:53","slug":"halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"California &#8212; World&#8217;s Largest Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/weencom.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>California is home to the world&#8217;s biggest Halloween. We have over 500 municipal Halloween festivals for kids and families, 10\u00a0major theme park Halloween haunts, 15 zoo boos and celebrations, dozens of graveyard tours, pumpkin plunges &amp; splashes, pumpkin patches, corn mazes, nearly a dozen pumpkin festivals, countless haunted houses, trunk or treats, scarecrow festivals and\u00a0the biggest Halloween party in the world, West Hollywood&#8217;s Carnaval.\u00a0More than half a million people come to the one night, annual celebration hosted by the city.<\/p>\n<p>Double the fun this year on October 29, 2016 when\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/san-diego-monster-bash.html\">San Diego&#8217;s Monster Bash<\/a> (fee and 21+) fills the Gaslamp Quarter, formerly\u00a0a red light district. Two days later on October 31\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/halloween\/west-hollywood-halloween.html\">West Hollywood Carnaval <\/a>(free, all ages) is staged over a one-mile stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard\/Historic Route 66, once the gathering place for mobsters like Bugsy Segal, and later the counterculture.\u00a0\u00a0Because these\u00a0Southern California mega-events land on different nights\u00a0in 2016, party animals can do them both.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California is home to the world&#8217;s biggest Halloween. We have over 500 municipal Halloween festivals for kids and families, 10\u00a0major theme park Halloween haunts, 15 zoo boos and celebrations, dozens of graveyard tours, pumpkin plunges &amp; splashes, pumpkin patches, corn mazes, nearly a dozen pumpkin festivals, countless haunted houses, trunk or treats, scarecrow festivals and\u00a0the [&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\/23323"}],"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=23323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}