{"id":56278,"date":"2025-04-23T12:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-jose-christmas-event-nets-new-contract-but-still-needs-funding\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T12:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:30:14","slug":"san-jose-christmas-event-nets-new-contract-but-still-needs-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/san-jose-christmas-event-nets-new-contract-but-still-needs-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Christmas event nets new contract but still needs funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As city leaders decide to keep a popular San Jose holiday event downtown under the same management through 2027, organizers say funding remains challenging. The San Jose City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to sign a three-year deal with Christmas In The Park Inc. to continue running the 35-day event in Plaza de Cesar Chavez \u2014 with the possibility of extending the agreement another six years. While Christmas in the Park drives almost $20 million in revenue per year for the city and its downtown businesses, the 44-year-old San Jose event continues to struggle with consistent funding. Organizers needed $100,000 just&hellip;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-jose-christmas-event-nets-new-contract-but-still-needs-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a> @San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As city leaders decide to keep a popular San Jose holiday event downtown under the same management through 2027, organizers say funding remains challenging. The San Jose City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to sign a three-year deal with Christmas In The Park Inc. to continue running the 35-day event in Plaza de Cesar Chavez \u2014 &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}