{"id":23639,"date":"2016-12-19T15:55:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T23:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23639"},"modified":"2016-12-19T15:55:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T23:55:21","slug":"cool-christmas-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/cool-christmas-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Christmas Traditions&#8211;Old and New"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/xmemor.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>Christmas is a festive time of year, full of cool traditions both old and new. If you happen to be in a large city like San Francisco, it&#8217;s so much fun to walk around and look at all the incredible, colorful lights and displays in business windows. Many homes also feature sensational spirit\u2014both outside and in. Think of all the\u00a0delicious Christmas food, some are lucky enough to taste\u2014even the aroma is special. \u00a0How I fondly remember my mom making penuche (Italian fudge-like candy) and I got to lick the bowl of remnants before it was washed.<\/p>\n<p><em>From Salvation Army Bell Ringers to Bing Crosby and his family singing carols in their\u00a0Hillsborough, Calif. neighborhood (where one man slammed the door on them,) there are many\u00a0cool Christmas traditions<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/christmas-memories.html\">&#8230; read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald Christmas is a festive time of year, full of cool traditions both old and new. If you happen to be in a large city like San Francisco, it&#8217;s so much fun to walk around and look at all the incredible, colorful lights and displays in business windows. Many homes also feature sensational [&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\/23639"}],"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=23639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}