{"id":14291,"date":"2022-12-05T10:28:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=14291"},"modified":"2022-12-05T10:28:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:28:56","slug":"hometown-holidays-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/hometown-holidays-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Redwood City prepares to receive the Christmas festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/santa-claus-hometown-holidays.jpeg\" alt=\"Homewtown Holidays 2022\" class=\"wp-image-14292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/santa-claus-hometown-holidays.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/santa-claus-hometown-holidays-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/santa-claus-hometown-holidays-18x12.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/santa-claus-hometown-holidays-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/santa-claus-hometown-holidays-696x464.jpeg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hometown Holidays 2021 Parade. Photo: P360P <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This coming December 10, Redwood City residents will be able to get into the Christmas spirit and join in the festivities with \u201cHometown Holidays 2022,\u201d a party to celebrate the holiday season with the entire family with activities and food that will put everyone in a good mood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guests will enjoy a parade, live entertainment, rides, photos with Santa and more. Hometown Holidays is a free, family-friendly event held at Courthouse Square in beautiful downtown Redwood City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The celebration includes the traditional Christmas parade, live entertainment including high school bands, dance groups and singing groups, entertainment activities, carnival rides and food stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New entertainment has been added this year, as attendees will be able to enjoy a mini petting zoo and tie-dyed t-shirt creation with Dyenosaur Tie Dye Company, both for a fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vendors of food and crafts will attend the event<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carnival rides will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., while photos with Santa will be from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., one per family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Live festive entertainment will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with the parade taking place at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hometownholidays.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.hometownholidays.org<\/a>, or by calling 650-455-5144.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is worth noting that the call for vendors and entertainers is still open, so those interested in becoming volunteers, vendors and artists to help make Hometown Holidays a success can still contact the organizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To volunteer, those interested can call 650-455-5144, while for requests for sponsorships, sales or food, they can go to the website <a href=\"https:\/\/redwoodcitydowntown.com\/hometownholidays\/vendor-booth-application\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by clicking here. <\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To participate in the parade you can fill out an application <a href=\"https:\/\/redwoodcitydowntown.com\/hometownholidays\/parade-entry-packet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by clicking here<\/a> and for artists under 18 years old can access <a href=\"https:\/\/redwoodcitydowntown.com\/hometownholidays\/entertainment-stage-performance-application\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You may be interested in: <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/december-celebrations-in-the-bay-area\/\">Get ready! Holiday celebrations kick off across the Bay Area<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Este pr\u00f3ximo 10 de diciembre, residentes de Redwood City podr\u00e1n sumergirse en el esp\u00edritu navide\u00f1o y unirse a las festividades con \u00abHometown Holidays 2022\u00bb, una fiesta para celebrar la temporada navide\u00f1a en compa\u00f1\u00eda de toda la familia con actividades y alimentos que pondr\u00e1n de buenas a todos. Los invitados podr\u00e1n disfrutar de un desfile, entretenimiento [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community","8":"category-cover","9":"category-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14294,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14291\/revisions\/14294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}