{"id":15460,"date":"2017-11-24T14:41:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=15460"},"modified":"2017-11-24T14:41:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:41:40","slug":"holywood-christmas-lights-switch-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2017\/11\/holywood-christmas-lights-switch-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Holywood Christmas Lights Switch On"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Holywood, Co. Down, is set to switch on its Christmas lights this Saturday (25 November 2017).<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15461\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/press1-19-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"451\" \/>Visitors to the town can look forward to a festive sing-a-long led by Christmas characters before the official switch on by the Mayor of Ards and North Down, Councillor Robert Adair, at 4.30pm.\u00a0 Santa may also be spotted on his sleigh as he makes his way through Holywood town centre!<\/p>\n<p>The switch on is organised by Ards and North Down Borough Council.<\/p>\n<p>An additional programme of festive activities arranged by Holywood District Community will take place in Holywood Library from 12noon until 3.30pm.\u00a0 The programme will include floral art demonstrations, a children\u2019s magic show and Christmas crafts for all the family.<\/p>\n<p>While the town\u2019s renowned speciality boutiques are the perfect place to find Christmas gift inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Christmas festivities in Ards and North Down, located right on Belfast\u2019s Doorstep: visitardsandnorthdown.com<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holywood, Co. Down, is set to switch on its Christmas lights this Saturday (25 November 2017). Visitors to the town can look forward to a festive sing-a-long led by Christmas characters before the official switch on by the Mayor of Ards and North Down, Councillor Robert Adair, at 4.30pm.\u00a0 Santa may also be spotted on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2017\/11\/holywood-christmas-lights-switch-on\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15463,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15460\/revisions\/15463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}