{"id":23380,"date":"2016-10-26T21:53:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T04:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23380"},"modified":"2016-10-26T21:53:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T04:53:29","slug":"santa-claus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/santa-claus\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Claus in Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/santaim.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week in celebration of\u00a0Halloween children and adults may experience Santa Claus sightings, and perhaps even dress like St. Nick &#8212; or the Grinch. However,\u00a0the REAL Santa or Santa&#8217;s helper is coming to town in just a few weeks. \u00a0<strong>Among the earliest Santa arrivals&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CAPITOLA:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/capitola-surfing-santa.html\">Surfing Santa<\/a> lands on the beach at Capitola by the Sea Nov. 26, 2016<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/san-diego-surfing-santa.html\">Surfing Santa<\/a> also arrives by boat at Seaport Village Nov. 26.<\/li>\n<li>PETALUMA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/petaluma-christmas.html\">Santa arrives by Riverboat<\/a>\u00a0again on\u00a0November 26.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Santa Look-Alikes\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DANA POINT: Surfing Santa Contest at Salt Creek Beach Nov. 19.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SANTACON<\/strong>, see: santacon.info<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Capitola Santacon Dec. 10, 2016<\/li>\n<li>Hayward Santacon Dec. 3, Downtown Hayward<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles Santacon Dec. 10<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco Santacon Dec. 10 at Union Square &#8212; thousands of Santas atttend this event!<\/li>\n<li>Windsor Santacon Dec. 3 in the Town Green<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in celebration of\u00a0Halloween children and adults may experience Santa Claus sightings, and perhaps even dress like St. Nick &#8212; or the Grinch. However,\u00a0the REAL Santa or Santa&#8217;s helper is coming to town in just a few weeks. \u00a0Among the earliest Santa arrivals&#8230; CAPITOLA:\u00a0Surfing Santa lands on the beach at Capitola by the Sea [&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\/23380"}],"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=23380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}