{"id":70330,"date":"2015-11-26T08:23:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T13:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=70330"},"modified":"2015-11-27T09:14:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T14:14:43","slug":"70330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/11\/26\/70330\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Garden lights up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-70331\" alt=\"Christmas Garden lighting collage 11-25-15\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Christmas-Garden-lighting-collage-11-25-15.jpg\" width=\"518\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Christmas-Garden-lighting-collage-11-25-15.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Christmas-Garden-lighting-collage-11-25-15-550x377.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thousands of people showed up for the fourth annual Christmas Garden lighting ceremony held at the Children&#8217;s Garden in Smiley Park. Soup and hot beverages were served to those who came to see the gorgeous lights of the garden, while a lucky 25 children went home with Apple iPod Touch mp3 players. Jim Clay, founder and organizer of the event, said donors provided more than $11,000 to fund the event.<\/strong> <em>(photos by Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people showed up for the fourth annual Christmas Garden lighting ceremony held at the Children&#8217;s Garden in Smiley Park. Soup and hot beverages were served to those who came to see the gorgeous lights of the garden, while a lucky 25 children went home with Apple iPod Touch mp3 players. Jim Clay, founder [&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-70330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 23:18:43","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\/70330","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=70330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}