{"id":18117,"date":"2016-11-24T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=18117"},"modified":"2016-11-24T12:07:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T17:07:23","slug":"new-events-expand-festival-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/24\/new-events-expand-festival-route\/","title":{"rendered":"New events expand festival route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/10\/20\/new-displays-expand-festival-route\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;ll be a prehistoric addition to this year&#8217;s Ontario Power Generation Winter Festival of Lights.<\/p>\n<p>Among the new additions to the 34th edition of the festival will be a 10-foot-tall 3D woolly mammoth as part of the Canadian wildlife displays at Dufferin Islands&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The expanded eight-kilometre illumination route runs along the Niagara Parkway as well as the surrounding districts of Fallsview Boulevard, Victoria Centre, Clifton Hill and Lundy&#8217;s Lane.<br \/>\n&#8220;For over three decades now, countless local residents and businesses have come together to support and promote what we feel is the best winter festival celebration anywhere,&#8221; Niagara Parks Commission chairwoman Janice Thomson said Thursday at a press conference at the Floral Showhouse.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial agency this year invested $300,000 on lighting, programming and infrastructure improvements within Queen Victoria Park.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara Falls Review: There&#8217;ll be a prehistoric addition to this year&#8217;s Ontario Power Generation Winter Festival of Lights. Among the new additions to the 34th edition of the festival will be a 10-foot-tall 3D woolly mammoth as part of the Canadian wildlife displays at Dufferin Islands&#8230; The expanded eight-kilometre illumination route runs along the&#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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[26,2,601,503],"tags":[59,865,814,2594,3827,2265,267,99,297,2194,721,3575,44,5241],"class_list":["post-18117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-ontario-2","category-niagara-falls-winter-festival-of-lights","tag-clifton-hill","tag-dufferin-islands","tag-fallsview-boulevard","tag-floral-showhouse","tag-janice-thomson","tag-lighting","tag-lundys-lane","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-niagara-parkway","tag-ontario-power-generation","tag-queen-victoria-park","tag-victoria-centre","tag-winter-festival-of-lights","tag-woolly-mammoth"],"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\/18117","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=18117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18118,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18117\/revisions\/18118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}