{"id":24200,"date":"2017-04-30T17:09:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T00:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24200"},"modified":"2017-04-30T17:09:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T00:09:36","slug":"mothers-day-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/mothers-day-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Day May 14, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/momdays.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Consumers say they will spend more than ever on\u00a0this year&#8217;s\u00a0Mother\u2019s Day as they shower moms with everything from jewelry to special outings at restaurants. I&#8217;d give anything to hug my mom and tell her I love her on\u00a0Mother&#8217;s Day\u00a0&#8212; she passed away a year ago and before she passed she began giving away her &#8220;stuff.&#8221;\u00a0Gift-giving is great, but if you&#8217;re looking\u00a0for something you can do together, here are a few ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/may-art.html\">Art Fairs<\/a>:\u00a0Alameda | Bass Lake | Dana Point | El Dorado Hills | Los Angeles | Los Banos | Marin | Monterey | Moorpark | Santa Fe Springs | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/sunset-beach-art-festival.html\">Sunset Beach<\/a> | Suisun City<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/may-wine.html\">Wine Festivals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/may-food.html\">Food Festivals<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A recent\u00a0National Retail Federation study found Americans plan on spending billions on moms in 2017\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0with consumers\u00a0averaging $186.39 for the holiday, up from last year\u2019s $172.22.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jewelry $4.2 billion<\/li>\n<li>Special brunch or dinner $3.5 billion<\/li>\n<li>Flowers $2.3 billion<\/li>\n<li>Electronics $2.3 billion<\/li>\n<li>Gift cards $2 billion<\/li>\n<li>Clothing and accessories $1.7 billion<\/li>\n<li>Day spa, etc. $1.5 billion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where Americans shop<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Specialty stores including jewelers, florists and electronics stores 36.6%<\/li>\n<li>Department store 34.4%<\/li>\n<li>Discount stores 29.1%<\/li>\n<li>Online 28.5%<\/li>\n<li>Specialty clothing stores 8.9%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers say they will spend more than ever on\u00a0this year&#8217;s\u00a0Mother\u2019s Day as they shower moms with everything from jewelry to special outings at restaurants. I&#8217;d give anything to hug my mom and tell her I love her on\u00a0Mother&#8217;s Day\u00a0&#8212; she passed away a year ago and before she passed she began giving away her &#8220;stuff.&#8221;\u00a0Gift-giving [&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\/24200"}],"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=24200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}