{"id":24962,"date":"2018-02-25T16:46:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T00:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24962"},"modified":"2018-02-25T16:46:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T00:46:04","slug":"st-pats-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/st-pats-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy St. Pat&#8217;s Day! Eat, Drink and Be Irish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/stpatcal.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>California and America celebrates St. Patrick&#8217; Day in a Big Way! With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-stpatricks-day-festivals.html\">St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parades<\/a> in San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, Hermosa Beach, Dublin, Murphys, Ventura and Visalia, there&#8217;s no shortage of fun in 2018, when the Irish holiday falls on a Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Each year around St. Patrick&#8217;s Day I remember my grandpa, Lee. Maybe it&#8217;s because he was&#8230;<br \/>\nPart Irish (the other part Cherokee)<br \/>\nPreferred Scotch whiskey (hands shook if he went too long without a drink)<br \/>\nWas a potato farmer (sharecrop) in the early years<br \/>\nWas thin &#8212; he stood about 5&#8217;8&#8243; tall<br \/>\nHad beautiful, black hair and piercing, blue eyes<br \/>\nDressed in bib overalls (for every occasion)<br \/>\nRolled his own cigarettes<br \/>\nWas missing some teeth<br \/>\nAlways had a smile &#8212; and was known for his jokes<\/p>\n<p>If you have some special Irish moments and memories, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/information\/search.html\">send &#8217;em<\/a> and I&#8217;ll share them.<\/p>\n<h2>St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Statistics<\/h2>\n<p>(National Retail Federation)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>43% of US population celebrated St. Patrick&#8217;s Day last year<\/li>\n<li>Consumers spent the most ever on the holiday, averaging $40 per celebrant<\/li>\n<li>$5.3 billion spent on holiday 2017<\/li>\n<li>82% of celebrants wear green<\/li>\n<li>27.5% attend party at bar or restaurant<\/li>\n<li>Age 25-54 are top spenders | then age 18-24 | age 55+ spend least<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Most popular purchases<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Food 52%<\/li>\n<li>Beverage 41%<\/li>\n<li>Apparel 28%<\/li>\n<li>Decoration 22%<\/li>\n<li>Candy 14%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>St. Patrick&#8217;s Shopping 2018<\/h2>\n<p>Party City appears to be the #1 favorite for many St. Patrick&#8217;s Day party items and a coupon code of $2 shipping, no minimum as of this posting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Costumes, t-shirts, beads and jewelry<\/li>\n<li>Hats, headbands and headwear starting at $1. A plaid fedora hat is $9 ($14 on Amazon.)<\/li>\n<li>Ties, suspenders, kilts, socks and leggings<\/li>\n<li>Decorations, balloons<\/li>\n<li>Parade float supplies<\/li>\n<li>Tableware, drinkware, party favors<\/li>\n<li>Baking supplies, candy buffet by color<\/li>\n<li>Personalized cups, coasters and coozies starting at $34<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California and America celebrates St. Patrick&#8217; Day in a Big Way! With St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parades in San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, Hermosa Beach, Dublin, Murphys, Ventura and Visalia, there&#8217;s no shortage of fun in 2018, when the Irish holiday falls on a Saturday. Each year around St. Patrick&#8217;s Day I remember my grandpa, Lee. [&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\/24962"}],"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=24962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24963,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24962\/revisions\/24963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}