{"id":507698,"date":"2026-10-25T18:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/507698\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T18:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T18:44:07","slug":"santa-clara-sets-monday-deadline-for-annual-halloween-home-decorating-contest-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/507698\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clara sets Monday deadline for annual Halloween home-decorating contest \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara residents have until 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26, to enter the city&#8217;s annual Halloween Home Decorating Contest, hosted by the Cultural Commission, the city said.<\/p>\n<p>The contest is open to city residents and limited to residential properties. Judging will focus on exterior decorations, with entries evaluated on visibility, interactivity, creativity, overall theme and a brief explanation of the decorations, limited to four sentences.<\/p>\n<p>Eight winners will be selected: one for the Most Innovative Award, one for Best Group and six district winners, with one from each of the city&#8217;s six City Council districts, according to the city.<\/p>\n<p>Select Cultural Commission members will judge entries in person by visiting contestants&#8217; homes.<br \/>Previous winners are not eligible to win the same award two years in a row, although they may qualify for a different category, city officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Winners will be announced Friday on the Cultural Commission&#8217;s Facebook and Instagram pages.<\/p>\n<p>Residents can enter by completing the online entry form <a href=\"https:\/\/survey123.arcgis.com\/share\/ebe579ec87494a0cbf9d16a9d89e37cb?portalUrl=https:\/\/missioncity.maps.arcgis.com%20before%20the%20deadline.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santa Clara residents have until 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26, to enter the city&#8217;s annual Halloween Home Decorating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,197],"class_list":["post-507698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507698","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=507698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}