{"id":270073,"date":"2024-12-08T17:31:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T01:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=270073"},"modified":"2024-12-26T20:48:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T04:48:13","slug":"ho-ho-ho-cheers-and-hot-cocoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/ho-ho-ho-cheers-and-hot-cocoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ho Ho Ho! \u2013 Cheers and Hot Cocoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s that time of the year again. The bravehearts ready to chill, armed with \u2018world famous\u2019 San Jose downtown Hot Cocoa, hoping to see something new along with the traditional \u2018Christmas in the Park.\u2019<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco, on the other hand was standing tall, despite a flock of emptiness. As they say, with hope, great things happen, and the Union Square Christmas tree still stands brightly lit up, awaiting those clicks and flashes.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>Siliconeer<\/strong> photo essay by <strong>Vansh<\/strong> and <strong>Janam Gupta<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/ho-ho-ho-cheers-and-hot-cocoa\/\"><em>For more photos, please visit the gallery at this link.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-270302.fg-justified .fg-item { margin-right: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; }\n#foogallery-gallery-270302.fg-justified .fg-image { height: 200px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-270302_1.fg-justified .fg-item { margin-right: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; }\n#foogallery-gallery-270302_1.fg-justified .fg-image { height: 200px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-justified 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The bravehearts ready to chill, armed with \u2018world famous\u2019 San Jose downtown Hot Cocoa, hoping to see something new along with the traditional \u2018Christmas in the Park.\u2019\u00a0 San Francisco, on the other hand was standing tall, despite a flock of emptiness. As they say, with hope, great things&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/ho-ho-ho-cheers-and-hot-cocoa\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[275,23,19],"tags":[25235,16709,64346,64344,58315,2563,594,64345,64047,64343],"class_list":["post-270073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-photos","category-topics","tag-cheers","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-in-the-park","tag-hot-cocoa","tag-photo-essay","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-downtown","tag-union-square","tag-union-square-christmas-tree"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}