{"id":253958,"date":"2018-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/holiday-briefs\/"},"modified":"2018-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"holiday-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/holiday-briefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Cheer from Father Joes<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This year, 30 school-age homeless children will have the opportunity to tour holiday lights on a ride on the Old Town Trolley.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-35981 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/father-joes-villages.jpg\" alt=\"Holiday Briefs\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" \/>The Dec. 6 ride departs at 4:15 p.m. from Old Town Market at 4010 Twiggs St., taking the kids on an hour tour through the city\u2019s holiday lights.<\/p>\n<p>After the ride, they will gather for a holiday party with pizzas and pi\u00f1atas.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier that day, 150 children under age five at Father Joe\u2019s Villages, including in the Therapeutic Childcare Center, will also receive personalized gifts from Santa and Mrs. Claus.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held at 10 a.m. at Joan Kroc Center, 1501 Imperial Ave.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Light up the tree<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35982 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/sp-tree-lighting.jpg\" alt=\"Holiday Briefs\" width=\"300\" height=\"340\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/340;\" \/><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Many neighborhood tree lighting events are happening this month, including in South Park and Hillcrest.<\/p>\n<p>Mama\u2019s Kitchen and Village Hillcrest will host its 27th annual Tree of Life Candlelight Vigil and Tree Lighting Ceremony. Sponsored by AIDS Healthcare Foundation, it commemorates World AIDS Day.<\/p>\n<p>Then before South Park\u2019s last quarterly walkabout, a community tree lighting will be held at 5:30 p.m. around Grape Street Square.<\/p>\n<p>Both events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Act and be merry<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>T3 Triple Threat Youth Mentors, a nonprofit arts education program in North Park, will present a festive production of \u201cWinnie the Pooh: A Christmas Tail\u201d from Dec. 19-21 at North Park Recreational Center. Directed by Morie Williams and Nick Hessling, with music direction by Jason Chase, the show features a talented cast of up-and-coming performers in the area.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35983 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sduptownnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/winnie-the-pooh-?????.jpg\" alt=\"Holiday Briefs\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many other holiday productions are playing throughout the month in Uptown neighborhoods, including \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d at Cygnet Theatre, and \u201cDr. Seuss\u2019s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!\u201d and \u201cClint Black\u2019s Looking for Christmas\u201d at The Old Globe<em>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheer from Father Joes This year, 30 school-age homeless children will have the opportunity to tour holiday lights on a ride on the Old Town Trolley.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":253959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Holiday Briefs","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11547,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-features","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}