{"id":145,"date":"2005-12-30T13:05:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T17:05:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-10-03T10:42:57","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T14:42:57","slug":"millions_to_view_party_in_the_park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/30\/millions_to_view_party_in_the_park\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions to view party in the park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?29\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s the gigantic New Year&#8217;s Eve bash that almost didn&#8217;t happen, that nobody wanted to see die and that is about to fill Queen Victoria Park with tens of thousands of people Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a couple of turbulent months of planning and fundraising for organizers of the annual free New Year&#8217;s Eve concert, but when Spirit of West and Great Big Sea climb on stage in front of somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000 people, it will be a true example of a community pulling together.<\/p>\n<p>Great Big Sea and Spirit of the West are the headline acts, with local band Jonesy warming up the crowd. It&#8217;s expected about six million people from coast to coast will tune in to view the big bash on national television.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: It&#8217;s the gigantic New Year&#8217;s Eve bash that almost didn&#8217;t happen, that nobody wanted to see die and that is about to fill Queen Victoria Park with tens of thousands of people Saturday. It&#8217;s been a couple of turbulent months of planning and fundraising for organizers of the annual free New&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}