{"id":67706,"date":"2025-11-24T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/67706\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:38:09","slug":"billionaires-bankroll-san-francisco-comeback-one-party-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/67706\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaires Bankroll San Francisco Comeback One Party at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Crime surveillance, food assistance, an 83-foot Christmas tree \u2013 they\u2019re all being paid for by an increasingly influential coalition of San Francisco billionaires. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">In the latest blurring of the lines between city services and private philanthropy, crypto billionaire Chris Larsen is chipping in for a monthly downtown block party featuring prominent DJs and a giant disco ball. The goal is to entice costume-clad revelers to help revive the city\u2019s struggling financial district and counteract images of a blighted San Francisco. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime surveillance, food assistance, an 83-foot Christmas tree \u2013 they\u2019re all being paid for by an increasingly influential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[9329,22321,9479,10555,10556,413,405,40234,101,103,102,104,106,105,1970,9560],"class_list":["post-67706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-billionaires","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-christmas","tag-cities","tag-daniel-l-lurie","tag-food","tag-government","tag-macys-inc","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-technology","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67706","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=67706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}