{"id":1873,"date":"2014-12-02T21:09:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T21:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2014-12-02T21:09:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T21:09:30","slug":"holiday-tree-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/holiday-tree-lighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Tree Lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/files\/2014\/12\/ID-1001305.jpg\\\"><img class=\\\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1874\\\" src=\\\"http:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/files\/2014\/12\/ID-1001305-300x204.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"ID-1001305\\\" width=\\\"300\\\" height=\\\"204\\\" \/><\/a>The Winter Park Chamber of Commerce invites you to kick off the holidays at the 25th annual Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony\u00a0in Central Park in downtown Winter Park on Friday December 5th.\u00a0 Bring the entire family to this free event for an evening of holiday cheer as Park Avenue is transformed into a Winter Wonderland.<\/p>\n<p>Kick off the evening with performances by local children\\&#8217;s choirs. The tree lighting will be broadcast live on WFTV &#8211; Channel\u00a09 with anchor Bob Opsahl. \u00a0Afterwards families can enjoy refreshments and activities provided by local businesses, plus visits with Santa.<\/p>\n<p>The Tree Lighting event is also a collection site for the local Toys for Tots campaign. In partnership with WFTV 9 Family Connection, attendees are invited to bring a new, unwrapped toy to the event and help spread holiday cheer to children throughout Central Florida this holiday season. Details on Toys for Tots can be found at\u00a0<a style=\\\"color: #000099;\\\" href=\\\"http:\/\/www.wftv.com\/s\/9familyconnection\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\">9Family.com<\/a>. Other highlights for the evening include the City of Winter Park\u2019s \u201cPopcorn Flicks,\u201d which will screen the holiday hit movie \u201cJingle All the Way\u201d free of charge beginning at 7 p.m. near the Central Park stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Winter Park Chamber of Commerce invites you to kick off the holidays at the 25th annual Holiday Tree Lighting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,467,592,238,347,364,301,400],"tags":[594,596,603,602,604,6],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-park","category-childrens-events","category-christmas","category-downtown-winter-park","category-holidays","category-parks-recreation-department","category-winter-park-chamber-of-commerce","category-winter-park-community-center","tag-christmas-events","tag-community-explore-winter-park","tag-fundraiser","tag-holiday-tree-lighting","tag-local-events","tag-winter-park-fl"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityexplore.com\/winterparkfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}