{"id":398,"date":"2021-12-05T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T02:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/?p=398"},"modified":"2021-12-07T10:17:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:17:37","slug":"lighting-up-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/2021\/12\/05\/lighting-up-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighting up Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARARAT Rotary Club and the Ararat Advocate are again searching for the districts best Christmas lights display.<\/p>\n<p>From next week, the Ararat Advocate will publish a map each week showing where people can go to see displays of Christmas lights in Ararat and surrounding towns.<\/p>\n<p>Households and businesses are urged to register their premises, with cash prizes for the winners of a number of different categories including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best display<\/li>\n<li>Best display by children<\/li>\n<li>Best commercial display<\/li>\n<li>Best Australian theme<\/li>\n<li>Best farm display<\/li>\n<li>People\u2019s choice award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Home and business owners wanting to participate and be included on the map need to contact the Ararat Advocate at <a href=\"mailto:editor@theadvocate.net.au\">editor@theadvocate.net.au<\/a> or by sending through information to us at 93a Barkly Street Ararat 3377.<\/p>\n<p>Rotary members will judge displays of Christmas lights before Christmas and winners will be published in the Ararat Advocate.<\/p>\n<p>A form will appear in next week\u2019s Ararat Advocate allowing people to nominate their preferred display for the People\u2019s Choice award. Online voting will also be allowed through our Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact Rotarian Jenny Beales on 0408 120 481.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARARAT Rotary Club and the Ararat Advocate are again searching for the districts best Christmas lights display. From next week, the Ararat Advocate will publish a map each week showing where people can go to see displays of Christmas lights in Ararat and surrounding towns. Households and businesses are urged to register their premises, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[31],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/lights.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqUu4-6q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}