{"id":16797,"date":"2014-08-19T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=16797"},"modified":"2014-08-19T10:34:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:34:42","slug":"fazio-out-as-winter-festival-of-lights-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/19\/fazio-out-as-winter-festival-of-lights-gm\/","title":{"rendered":"Fazio out as Winter Festival of Lights GM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2014\/08\/13\/fazio-out-as-winter-festival-of-lights-gm\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After 10 years, the Winter Festival of Lights and its general manager Dino Fazio have parted ways.<\/p>\n<p>Fazio confirmed in an e-mail to the media Wednesday that he has left the long-running festival to pursue &#8220;personal projects.&#8221; He had been on a leave of absence &#8220;for awhile,&#8221; according to festival board co-chairman Brian Crow.<\/p>\n<p>He said Fazio was a &#8220;great&#8221; leader for the festival during an often turbulent decade. During his stint, the festival had to bow out of the annual New Year&#8217;s Eve concert in Queen Victoria Park, and last year ended its partnership with Disney after more than two decades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: After 10 years, the Winter Festival of Lights and its general manager Dino Fazio have parted ways. Fazio confirmed in an e-mail to the media Wednesday that he has left the long-running festival to pursue &#8220;personal projects.&#8221; He had been on a leave of absence &#8220;for awhile,&#8221; according to festival&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,2,601,49,503],"tags":[9884,408,671,362,9885,3383,720,1139,721,44],"class_list":["post-16797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","category-niagara-falls-winter-festival-of-lights","tag-brian-crow","tag-concert","tag-dino-fazio","tag-disney","tag-festival-board","tag-general-manager","tag-new-years-eve","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-queen-victoria-park","tag-winter-festival-of-lights"],"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\/16797","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\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}