{"id":3218,"date":"2023-01-04T22:02:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T22:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2023-01-04T22:04:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T22:04:25","slug":"manhattan-holly-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/?p=3218","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Holly Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> I was supposed to be in Scotland, but I wasn&#8217;t. I wasn&#8217;t supposed to be in New York City but I was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manhattan puts on a magical show for the holidays&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2009-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2009-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2009-rotated.jpg 240w, https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2009-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Santa hosting The Rockettes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2011.jpg 320w, https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2011-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Times Square watercolors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_1987-rotated.jpg\"><img 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src=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2001.jpg 320w, https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_2001-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rockefeller Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4603-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4603-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4603-rotated.jpg 240w, 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to be in Scotland, but I wasn&#8217;t. I wasn&#8217;t supposed to be in New York City but I was. Manhattan &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-59"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelbeing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}