{"id":23558,"date":"2016-12-01T23:03:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T07:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23558"},"modified":"2016-12-01T23:03:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T07:03:41","slug":"big-holiday-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/big-holiday-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Weekend of the Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/decwalk.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We crunched some numbers and learned\u00a0that\u00a0this weekend offeres MORE Tree Lightings, Parades, and holiday celebrations than any other days leading up to Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weekend Celebrations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/trees\/california-tree-lighting-ceremonies.html\">200 tree ceremonies<\/a> produced by cities, business districts, chambers of commerce and shopping malls\u00a0in California, the\u00a0most popular time to host them\u00a0is December 1-4, 2016 with 121 ceremonies or more than half taking place\u00a0during\u00a0those four days.<\/li>\n<li>The biggest single day for tree lightings is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/calendar\/2016de3.html\">Saturday, Dec. 3<\/a>, followed by Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/calendar\/2016de2.html\">Dec. 2, 2016<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/parades\/california-christmas-parades.html\">Holiday parades<\/a> are also extremely popular on this particular weekend &#8212; we&#8217;ve counted over 50!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/walks.html\">Street Fairs &amp; Walkabouts<\/a>\u00a0range from a Cornish Christmas in the mountains to Chistmas Walks at the beaches<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/christmas-trains.html\">Christmas Train Rides<\/a> are in their prime<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/icerinks\/directory.html\">Holiday Outdoor Ice Rinks<\/a> are Open<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/house-museums-celebrations.html\">House Museum Celebrations<\/a> this weekend include approx. 20 special open houses.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-holiday-home-tours.html\">Holiday Home Tour<\/a> fundraisers offer unique glimpses into special residences.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/nutcracker-ballet\/california-nutcracker-ballet.html\"> Nutcracker Ballets<\/a>\u00a0are on their way with special weekend performances throughout the state.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/christmas-carol.html\">A Christmas Carol<\/a> is the top play during the season.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/sing-alongs.html\">Sing-Alongs<\/a> offer affordable, family entertainment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We crunched some numbers and learned\u00a0that\u00a0this weekend offeres MORE Tree Lightings, Parades, and holiday celebrations than any other days leading up to Christmas. Weekend Celebrations Of 200 tree ceremonies produced by cities, business districts, chambers of commerce and shopping malls\u00a0in California, the\u00a0most popular time to host them\u00a0is December 1-4, 2016 with 121 ceremonies or more [&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\/23558"}],"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=23558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}