{"id":23564,"date":"2016-12-02T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23564"},"modified":"2016-12-02T15:30:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T23:30:11","slug":"remembering-santas-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/remembering-santas-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Santa&#8217;s Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/scotxma.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By C. MacDonald<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I heard recently that Santa&#8217;s Village was reopening as SkyPark at Santa&#8217;s Village in Skyforest, near Lake Arrowhead, California, I thought back to a similar Santa&#8217;s Village in Scotts Valley (Santa Cruz Mountains) which provided so much joy for me and my friends in the 1950s and 60s. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/themeparks\/scotts-valley-santas-village.html\">Read about Santa&#8217;s Village in Scotts Valley&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<h2>Signs that\u00a0Santa&#8217;s Been Here<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/attractions\/oxnard-roadside-santa.html\">Roadside Santa in Oxnard<\/a>, a rooftop statue that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/santa-claus-eviction-and-the-people-who-saved-him-in-oxnard-ca.html\">got the boot<\/a>\u00a0from Carpinteria&#8217;s Santa Claus Lane.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/25-california-cities-celebrate-christmas-year-round.html\">25 cities celebrate Christmas year round<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald When I heard recently that Santa&#8217;s Village was reopening as SkyPark at Santa&#8217;s Village in Skyforest, near Lake Arrowhead, California, I thought back to a similar Santa&#8217;s Village in Scotts Valley (Santa Cruz Mountains) which provided so much joy for me and my friends in the 1950s and 60s. \u00a0Read about Santa&#8217;s [&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\/23564"}],"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=23564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}