{"id":25023,"date":"2018-03-25T14:51:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T21:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25023"},"modified":"2018-03-25T14:51:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T21:51:10","slug":"mountains-beaches-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/mountains-beaches-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Californians Head to Mountains, Deserts, Beaches for Easter Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/easeservice.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Easter Sunday is described as the Super Bowl of church attendance.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More Americans \u00a0Google\u00a0for &#8220;church&#8221; around Easter than at any other time, even Christmas, according to Pew Research.<\/li>\n<li>The highest share of searches for &#8220;church&#8221; are on the week of Easter Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>Compared to Christmas, Easter is NOT a day where a large number of the unchurched people show up. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/holidays\/easter-internet.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/li>\n<li>Why the search engine spike at Easter for the word, church? Inactive and less active church members make their annual token appearance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/easter\/easter-services.html\">Californians and tourists go on Easter<\/a> to get inspired:<\/p>\n<h2>Mountains<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK: Yosemite Valley Chapel, a 130+ year old church with backdrop of Yosemite Falls<\/li>\n<li>MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN: Easter Service on the deck of the Mountainside Bar &amp; Grill<\/li>\n<li>TRUCKEE: \u00a0Northstar at Tahoe \u00a0On-Mountain Church Service<\/li>\n<li>LA MESA: Mt. Helix \u00a0in the Mt. Helix Park Amphitheater<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: Mount Davidson Cross with a dazzling springtime array of wildflowers in bloom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Beaches<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>NEWPORT BEACH: On the Beach at 14th Street<\/li>\n<li>OCEANSIDE: Sunrise on the Shore Oceanside Beach Amphitheater<\/li>\n<li>HERMOSA BEACH: Easter Sunrise Catholic Mass \u00a0south of<br \/>\nHermosa Beach Pier<\/li>\n<li>HUNTINGTON BEACH: Sunrise Easter Service at Huntington Beach Pier Plaza<\/li>\n<li>CARLSBAD: Carlsbad Flower Fields<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: Point Loma&#8217;s Cabrillo National Monument<\/li>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA: At the Courthouse Sunken Gardens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Deserts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>RAMONA: 90th Annual Easter Sunrise Service at Ramona Bowl<\/li>\n<li>PALM SPRINGS: Aerial Tramway Sunrise Easter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Vineyards<\/h2>\n<p>SONOMA: Cline Cellars Easter Sunrise Service at the Adobe Mission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter Sunday is described as the Super Bowl of church attendance. More Americans \u00a0Google\u00a0for &#8220;church&#8221; around Easter than at any other time, even Christmas, according to Pew Research. The highest share of searches for &#8220;church&#8221; are on the week of Easter Sunday. Compared to Christmas, Easter is NOT a day where a large number of [&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\/25023"}],"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=25023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25024,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25023\/revisions\/25024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}