{"id":23343,"date":"2016-10-20T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23343"},"modified":"2016-10-20T00:05:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T07:05:17","slug":"diwali-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/diwali-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Diwali California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/dwali.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>California\u00a0cities with the largest percent of Indian (from India) populations include Cupertino 15% | Fremont 13.7% | Sunnyvale 13.1% | Livingston 13% | Saratoga 8.4% | San Ramon 8.2% |<\/p>\n<p>Diwali, a festival of light, is\u00a0India&#8217;s most important holiday of the year &#8212; but it&#8217;s also important to many Californians. Last week Cupertino and Richmond were among the cities with celebrations but there are more to come. Some events are outdoor\u00a0family festivals while others are more intimate banquets with entertainment such as Bollywood shows.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/diwali.html\">Diwali 2016<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>ARTESIA: Diwali Mela Oct.22<br \/>\nNORWALK: Diwali Festival of Lights Oct.22 Cerritos College<br \/>\nSAN FRANCISCO: Diwali Oct. 22<br \/>\nSAN DIEGO: Diwali Mela Oct.22<br \/>\nARTESIA: Diwali Mela Oct.22<br \/>\nNORWALK: Diwali Festival of Lights Oct.22<br \/>\nNOVATO: Diwali Festival of Lights Oct.29<br \/>\nSAN DIEGO: Royal DIVA Diwali Party Oct.29<br \/>\nNORWALK: SRBS of USA Diwali Oct.29<br \/>\nSARATOGA: Saratoga Diwali Mela Nov.12<br \/>\nCHINO HILLS: Kids Diwali Festival Oct.29<br \/>\nFRESNO: Annakut Darshan + Kids Diwali Oct.29<br \/>\nUPLAND: Inland Empire Desi Indians Diwali Oct.29<br \/>\nMILPITAS: Diwali Festival of Lights Oct.30<br \/>\nSAN JOSE: Chopda Pujan Oct.30<br \/>\nLOS ANGELES: AIS Diwali Oct.30<br \/>\nSACRAMENTO: New Year&#8217;s Arti Oct. 31<br \/>\nLOS ANGELES: Diwali Nov.1\u00a0USC Ronald Tutor Campus<br \/>\nNORWALK: Diwali Nov.4<br \/>\nMONROVIA: Diwali Nov. 5<br \/>\nSTOCKTON: Diwali Nov.11-12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California\u00a0cities with the largest percent of Indian (from India) populations include Cupertino 15% | Fremont 13.7% | Sunnyvale 13.1% | Livingston 13% | Saratoga 8.4% | San Ramon 8.2% | Diwali, a festival of light, is\u00a0India&#8217;s most important holiday of the year &#8212; but it&#8217;s also important to many Californians. Last week Cupertino and Richmond [&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\/23343"}],"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=23343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}