{"id":23651,"date":"2016-12-21T15:05:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T23:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23651"},"modified":"2016-12-21T15:05:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T23:05:58","slug":"holiday-lights-twinkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/holiday-lights-twinkle\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Lights and the Woman Who Lit the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/topcostu.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>California may have more spectacular holiday lights than any other state, with so many unbelievable displays wherever you go. Botanic gardens, zoos, hotels, museums, city plazas, neighborhoods and theme park attractions are among\u00a0literally thousands of special light scenes.<\/p>\n<p>It is one thing when lights appear on structures and plants but when they&#8217;re on a human, it especially blows you away.\u00a0One Christmas holiday long, long ago, in what was then a much smaller town of San Jose, California, there was a legendary teacher\u00a0known as Twinkles, who always anointed the season in her handmade Yuletide dress. Hundreds of tiny, colorful light bulbs, which formed Christmas trees, stars and musical notes, adorned this walking, smiling, one-person extravaganza. Covered from head to toe in lights, she also had red and green lights on her shoes and a pulsating ensemble of bulbs on her hat, patterned not only like mistletoe but a grinning Santa Claus as well&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/twinkles.html\">read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald California may have more spectacular holiday lights than any other state, with so many unbelievable displays wherever you go. Botanic gardens, zoos, hotels, museums, city plazas, neighborhoods and theme park attractions are among\u00a0literally thousands of special light scenes. It is one thing when lights appear on structures and plants but when they&#8217;re [&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\/23651"}],"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=23651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}