{"id":9242,"date":"2010-11-05T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9242"},"modified":"2010-11-05T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T15:27:52","slug":"mickey-set-to-flip-the-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/05\/mickey-set-to-flip-the-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey set to flip the switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2832433\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The leaves have fallen, the pumpkins are gone and the Christmas decorations are out of storage.<\/p>\n<p>But around Niagara Falls, the season doesn&#8217;t formally start until Mickey Mouse says so.<\/p>\n<p>The Disney icon will once again flip the switch Saturday night at Queen Victoria Park to get the 28th CAA Winter Festival of Lights underway. In a flash, more than 125 displays and three million lights will dazzle the city, making it one of North America&#8217;s largest lights festivals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It kind of officially turns the city into winter mode,&#8221; says festival general manager Dino Fazio. &#8220;It certainly drives a lot of overnight tourism (this weekend) &#8230; that&#8217;s when we start to see people showing up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ll come on a regular basis. There are those that come now but also want to see (the lights) when the snow falls as well.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The leaves have fallen, the pumpkins are gone and the Christmas decorations are out of storage. But around Niagara Falls, the season doesn&#8217;t formally start until Mickey Mouse says so. The Disney icon will once again flip the switch Saturday night at Queen Victoria Park to get the 28th CAA&#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":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":[16,26,2,27,503],"tags":[1312,671,362,47,2003,4595,4674,2460,1179,4675,721,786,418,2708,44,4676],"class_list":["post-9242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-scenery","category-niagara-falls-winter-festival-of-lights","tag-caa","tag-dino-fazio","tag-disney","tag-festival-of-lights","tag-lights","tag-lights-festival","tag-mickey","tag-mickey-mouse","tag-north-america","tag-overnight-tourism","tag-queen-victoria-park","tag-snow","tag-tourism","tag-winter-festival","tag-winter-festival-of-lights","tag-winter-mode"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242","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=9242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}