{"id":2306,"date":"2014-11-30T21:33:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T05:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2015-08-17T23:19:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T06:19:32","slug":"santa2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/santa2014\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Westside Malls Santa Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/visiting-santa-at-westside-pavilion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Last year<\/a>, my daughter was perfectly fine <strong>visiting Santa at the mall<\/strong>. This year, she was terrified. We returned to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westsidepavilion.com\/Events\/Details\/220056?startDate=11%2F30%2F2014\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Westside Pavilion<\/strong><\/a>, and saw the same Santa from last year. The photo company, however, is different. Now, you can download the photos from the session in addition to prints from one pose. My daughter cried in every single pose, even after I sat with her and chatted with Santa. Santa thought it would be funny if he was crying too, and we chose that photo for our print.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/santa_visit_2014.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2308\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/santa2014\/santa_visit_2014\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/santa_visit_2014.jpg?fit=1151%2C937&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1151,937\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"santa_visit_2014\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Aria with Santa in 2013 and 2014. Happy baby, crying toddler.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/santa_visit_2014.jpg?fit=640%2C521&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2308 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/santa_visit_2014.jpg?resize=640%2C521&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"santa_visit_2014\" width=\"640\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/santa_visit_2014.jpg?w=1151&amp;ssl=1 1151w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/santa_visit_2014.jpg?resize=300%2C244&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/santa_visit_2014.jpg?resize=1024%2C833&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/santa_visit_2014.jpg?resize=220%2C180&amp;ssl=1 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to see how your Santa photos turn out!<\/p>\n<h2>2014 Westside Mall Santa Links<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westsidepavilion.com\/Events\/Details\/220056?startDate=11%2F15%2F2014\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Westside Pavilion<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(West L.A.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beverlycenter.com\/santaphotos\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Beverly Center<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(West Hollywood)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.westfield.com\/santa_2014_pdfs\/culvercity_santa.pdf?_ga=1.147678455.1962155845.1417411177\" target=\"_blank\">Westfield Culver City<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; opens a PDF of their Santa Schedule (Culver City)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santamonicaplace.com\/Events\/Details\/221072?startDate=11%2F20%2F2014\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Santa Monica Place<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Santa Monica)<\/p>\n<h3>Relevant Links<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"How To Take a Memorable Holiday Photo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/how-to-take-a-memorable-holiday-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to take a memorable holiday photo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Christmas Tree lighting ceremonies in Los Angeles\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/christmas-tree-lighting-ceremonies-in-los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas Tree Lighting events in Los Angeles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, my daughter was perfectly fine visiting Santa at the mall. This year, she was terrified. We returned to Westside Pavilion, and saw the same Santa from last year. The photo company, however, is different. Now, you can download the photos from the session in addition to prints from one pose. My daughter cried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[906],"tags":[407,32,565,36,33,34],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-announcements","tag-activity","tag-christmas","tag-holiday","tag-mall","tag-photo","tag-santa","eq-blocks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/santa_visit-feat.jpg?fit=340%2C160&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46LgQ-Bc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2314,"url":"https:\/\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/more-westside-holiday-events\/","url_meta":{"origin":2306,"position":0},"title":"More Westside Holiday events","author":"westsidemommy","date":"December 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"My friend Annmarie knows a lot of the goings-on around Venice. 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