{"id":23502,"date":"2016-11-18T21:22:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T05:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23502"},"modified":"2016-11-18T21:22:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T05:22:03","slug":"wrangle-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wrangle-balloons\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride or Wrangle Balloons in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/holxmpa.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"649\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From November 18 to 20, 2016\u00a0weekend warriors are enjoying balloon launches and rides. It&#8217;s a wonderful time &#8212; 77-degree daytime highs &#8212; and cool nights for watching balloon glow\u00a0events\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-balloon-festivals.html\">Cathedral City Hot Air Balloon Festival<\/a>. A week later the\u00a085th annual Hollywood Christmas parade on Sunday, November 27 travels 3.5 miles along Hollywood Blvd., Sunset Blvd. and Vine. Hollywood Hotel (hollywoodhotel.net) guests are invited to wrangle elf and lollipop balloon characters in the parade. Wanna come? Call\u00a0(323) 315-1800\u00a0for details.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring Grand Marshal Olivia Newton-John, singers, celebs, drill teams, marching bands and and\u00a0Marine Toys for Tots Foundation,\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/parades\/hollywood-christmas-parade.html\">Hollywood Christmas Parade<\/a> telecast is\u00a0hosted by Erik Estrada, Laura McKenzie, Dean Cain and Montel Williams.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From November 18 to 20, 2016\u00a0weekend warriors are enjoying balloon launches and rides. It&#8217;s a wonderful time &#8212; 77-degree daytime highs &#8212; and cool nights for watching balloon glow\u00a0events\u00a0at Cathedral City Hot Air Balloon Festival. A week later the\u00a085th annual Hollywood Christmas parade on Sunday, November 27 travels 3.5 miles along Hollywood Blvd., Sunset Blvd. [&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\/23502"}],"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=23502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}