{"id":207816,"date":"2026-03-06T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207816\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T20:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:00:31","slug":"san-francisco-makes-final-preparation-for-chinese-new-year-parade-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207816\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco makes final preparation for Chinese New Year parade \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Final preparations are underway for Saturday&#8217;s Chinese New Year parade and festival in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The parade, which is free to attend, starts at 5:15 p.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0procession\u00a0begins at Second and Market streets, goes around Union Square and ends at Kearny Street and Columbus Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 different local organizations are participating.<\/p>\n<p>Event organizers said there will be more than a dozen floats, a drone show and even some surprises, with organizers expecting around 200,000 people to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few years, organizers have seen more and more people attend the event.<\/p>\n<p>Olympic gold medalist and San Francisco native Eileen Gu will be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/eileen-gu-san-francisco-chinese-new-year-parade\/4019007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">grand marshal of the parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Final preparations are underway for Saturday&#8217;s Chinese New Year parade and festival in San Francisco. The parade, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[13005,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-207816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-chinatown","9":"tag-san-francisco","10":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","11":"tag-san-francisco-news","12":"tag-sf","13":"tag-sf-headlines","14":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}