{"id":23579,"date":"2016-12-06T11:24:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T19:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23579"},"modified":"2016-12-06T03:26:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T11:26:17","slug":"mission-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/mission-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"California Missions Celebrate Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/xmission.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The entertainment and educational side of California&#8217;s missions (known for hosting thousands of school kids and tourists) takes a break around Christmas while active church parish communities at these missions celebrate their most beloved and cherished holiday traditions ranging from candlelight concerts\u00a0to Las Posadas. Each year we like to do a survey of what&#8217;s happening in mission parishes and present items of interest the public can attend.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-christmas-missions.html\">2016 California Mission Christmas Events<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>CARMEL: Carmel Mission Christmas Fair Dec. 10-11, 2016<\/li>\n<li>FREMONT: Mission San Jose Las Posadas Dec.15-23<\/li>\n<li>JOLON: \u00a0Mission San Antonio Las Posadas\u00a0Dec.24<\/li>\n<li>LOMPOC: Mission La Purisima Founding Day Mass &amp; Concert\u00a0Dec.8<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: Mission San Diego Candlelight Meditation Concert Dec.17-18<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: Mission Dolores Candlelight Christmas Concert Dec.18<\/li>\n<li>SAN GABRIEL: San Gabriel Mission Claretion Missionary Benefit Concert Dec.10<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-christmas-missions.html\">See more mission events<\/a>\u00a0in Oceanside, San Juan Capistrano, San Juan Bautista, San Luis Obispo, San Miguel, Solvang, Santa Barbara and Ventura<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entertainment and educational side of California&#8217;s missions (known for hosting thousands of school kids and tourists) takes a break around Christmas while active church parish communities at these missions celebrate their most beloved and cherished holiday traditions ranging from candlelight concerts\u00a0to Las Posadas. Each year we like to do a survey of what&#8217;s happening [&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\/23579"}],"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=23579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}