{"id":30450,"date":"2026-02-09T22:04:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/?p=30450"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:08:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:08:34","slug":"festival-of-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/festival-of-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival of Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every year the Niagara Parkway around Niagara Falls is decorated with lights in late November continuing to mid January.  We usually attend each year but haven&#8217;t for the last couple of years.  We attended just before New Year (after the New Years&#8217; Card closed).  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