{"id":24747,"date":"2017-11-23T16:31:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T00:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24747"},"modified":"2017-11-23T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T00:31:51","slug":"california-lighting-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-lighting-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"California Lighting Up for Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/misin.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the day after Thanksgiving (Nov.24.2017) the Mission Inn in Riverside flicks the switch on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/riverside-mission-inn-lights.html\">5 million lights<\/a> that decorate the historic inn during the holidays. This year Duane and Kelly Roberts, who bring this gift to the community, announced a special guest performance by Kenny Loggins at 4:30 p.m. to watch the fireworks show. Bus loads of people from around the state come to see the free, annual display nightly through Jan.6, 2018. The couple has added a line of commemorative merchandise visitors this year can browse and buy.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/christmas-lights.html\">Christmas and Holiday Lights in California<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Long Beach bays and waterways are lit with floating platforms the look like trees.<\/p>\n<p>Oxnard&#8217;s Historic Distric lights up for the public to see.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco buses offer holiday lights tours for the annual displays ranging from San Francisco Airport to dozens of light installations in the annual Illuminate SF.<\/p>\n<p>Zoos are preparing their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/zoos\/christmas.html\">holiday lights displays<\/a>, a special night-time attraction.<\/p>\n<p>Theme parks are busy lighting up for special holiday events and shows.<\/p>\n<p>Cities are in gear to celebrate with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/trees\/california-tree-lighting-ceremonies.html\">tree lighting ceremonies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Communities prepare for their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/parades\/california-christmas-parades.html\">annual light parades<\/a>. Tractor and truck parades are great!<\/p>\n<p>Light attractions such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/global-winter-wonderland.html\">Global Winter Wonderland<\/a> appear in Sacramento and San Diego this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day after Thanksgiving (Nov.24.2017) the Mission Inn in Riverside flicks the switch on 5 million lights that decorate the historic inn during the holidays. This year Duane and Kelly Roberts, who bring this gift to the community, announced a special guest performance by Kenny Loggins at 4:30 p.m. to watch the fireworks show. [&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\/24747"}],"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=24747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}