{"id":351097,"date":"2026-06-08T00:52:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351097\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T00:52:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T00:52:37","slug":"the-san-francisco-park-where-you-can-buy-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/351097\/","title":{"rendered":"The San Francisco park where you can buy anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Golden Gate Park may be bigger, and Lands End may be prettier. But on a sunny weekend, Dolores Park becomes San Francisco&#8217;s unofficial town square. By early afternoon, the lawns fill with sunbathers, picnickers, kite flyers, musicians and plenty of recurring characters. It&#8217;s also home to an informal economy that persists despite park rangers&#8217; best efforts \u2014 from margaritas sold by Venmo to psilocybin chocolate bars.SFGATE&#8217;s Timothy Karoff spent a recent weekend getting to know the park&#8217;s regular class of vendors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden Gate Park may be bigger, and Lands End may be prettier. But on a sunny weekend, Dolores&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[14886,2985,68056,143555,29807,101,103,102,104,106,105,100634,143556],"class_list":["post-351097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-dolores-park","tag-golden-gate-park","tag-informal-economy","tag-lands-end","tag-park-rangers","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sunny-weekend","tag-unofficial-town-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351097","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=351097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}