{"id":5202,"date":"2009-11-21T09:43:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T15:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=5202"},"modified":"2009-11-21T09:43:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T15:43:52","slug":"pics-downtown-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/21\/pics-downtown-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Pics: Downtown Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"

I walked over to Court Square about 5:15 for the flip-the-switch celebration for the Downtown holiday lights.\u00a0 As I walked up, I noticed two things:\u00a0 1) There were fewer people than last year, a little surprising because the temps this year were about 30 degrees warmer; and 2) I found it odd that the carolers were caroling at the edge of the square, by the Porter Building, rather than in the gazebo.<\/p>\n

As I walked through the square and looked at the lights, though, my questions were answered:\u00a0 The square had been overrun by rats!\u00a0 They were running all over the place.\u00a0 I stayed in the park for 5 minutes and must have seen a dozen of them scampering around.\u00a0 They definitely were not afraid of humans either.<\/p>\n

During the course of the evening, I took two walks and took photos of Downtown storefronts decorated for the holidays.\u00a0 Here are some pics.<\/p>\n

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I walked over to Court Square about 5:15 for the flip-the-switch celebration for the Downtown holiday lights.\u00a0 As I walked up, I noticed two things:\u00a0 1) There were fewer people than last year, a little surprising because the temps this year were about 30 degrees warmer; and 2) I found it odd that the carolers … Continue reading “Pics: Downtown Lights”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5214,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions\/5214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}