{"id":3250,"date":"2009-11-17T15:18:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T20:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2009-12-09T13:23:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T18:23:27","slug":"ottawa-olympic-torch-relay-meets-parliament-hill-christmas-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/17\/ottawa-olympic-torch-relay-meets-parliament-hill-christmas-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Olympic Torch Relay meets Parliament Hill Christmas lights!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How cool is this?  According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitaleducanada.gc.ca\/bins\/ncc_web_content_page.asp?cid=16297-16298-10113&#038;lang=1\">NCC&#8217;s website<\/a>, the annual Christmas Lights Across the Capital festival, otherwise known as the lighting of the downtown holiday lights, will this year coincide with the arrival of the Olympic Torch in Ottawa:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Saturday, December 12, at 7 p.m., the 25th edition of Christmas Lights Across Canada will be launched with an illumination ceremony on Parliament Hill. This year, the celebration is set to coincide with the arrival of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Flame, as the Olympic Torch Relay reaches the heart of Canada\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Capital Region. <\/p>\n<p>This brilliant symbol of Olympic spirit, as well as over 300,000 dazzling lights, will light up the night as Christmas Lights Across Canada kicks off. <\/p>\n<p>The festivities on Parliament Hill will get under way at 5:45 p.m. Residents and visitors, along with dignitaries and special guests, are invited to gather on Parliament Hill to join the celebration for this special moment in the countdown to the 2010 Winter Games. <\/p>\n<p>The evening promises to be a magical one, with fun and entertainment for the whole family. Mark December 12 on your calendar! More details will follow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Edited to add:  <\/strong>Thanks to the NCC, I&#8217;ve got more <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/09\/ottawas-olympic-torch-relay-and-christmas-light-celebration\/\">official details on the Parliament Hill Christmas Lights\/Olympic Torch Relay in this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How cool is this? According to the NCC&#8217;s website, the annual Christmas Lights Across the Capital festival, otherwise known as the lighting of the downtown holiday lights, will this year coincide with the arrival of the Olympic Torch in Ottawa: On Saturday, December 12, at 7 p.m., the 25th edition of Christmas Lights Across Canada &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/17\/ottawa-olympic-torch-relay-meets-parliament-hill-christmas-lights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ottawa Olympic Torch Relay meets Parliament Hill Christmas lights!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,18,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happy-holidays","category-life-in-ottawa","category-ottawa-family-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3359,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}