{"id":45917,"date":"2013-11-30T07:59:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T12:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=45917"},"modified":"2013-12-02T08:19:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T13:19:02","slug":"45917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/11\/30\/45917\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Christmas-Garden-lighting-layout-11-2013.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-45918\" alt=\"Christmas Garden lighting layout 11-2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Christmas-Garden-lighting-layout-11-2013.jpg\" width=\"518\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Christmas-Garden-lighting-layout-11-2013.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Christmas-Garden-lighting-layout-11-2013-550x397.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Hundreds of children and their parents braved frigid temperatures to see the lights lit up at the Christmas Garden (Children\u2019s Garden) at Smiley Park on Friday evening. Santa Claus was also on hand, as was the Grinch, although he didn\u2019t act too Grinch-like. The project is spearheaded annually local resident Jim Clay (above with microphone) and a number of local sponsors and volunteers.<\/b> <i>(Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of children and their parents braved frigid temperatures to see the lights lit up at the Christmas Garden (Children\u2019s Garden) at Smiley Park on Friday evening. Santa Claus was also on hand, as was the Grinch, although he didn\u2019t act too Grinch-like. The project is spearheaded annually local resident Jim Clay (above with microphone) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 00:56:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}