{"id":921,"date":"2013-12-24T07:59:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T12:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"2013-12-24T07:59:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T12:59:41","slug":"epb-adds-festivus-display-to-holiday-window-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2013\/12\/24\/epb-adds-festivus-display-to-holiday-window-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"EPB adds Festivus display to holiday window showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-920\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/festivuspole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-920\" alt=\"(Source: flic.kr\/p\/f55zWg. Used under the CC-BY-2.0 license: tinyurl.com\/24xvum)\" src=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/festivuspole-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/festivuspole-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/festivuspole.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Source: flic.kr\/p\/f55zWg. Used under the CC-BY-2.0 license: tinyurl.com\/24xvum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yesterday morning, EPB expanded its Holiday Windows showcase to include a display just in time for the annual December 23 holiday Festivus.<\/p>\n<p>For over 60 years, EPB has upheld a tradition to decorate the windows of its downtown office with ornate Christmas scenes using trees, animated characters and thousands of lights, and this year, it made a controversial decision to include Festivus, an alternative holiday to Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>The Festivus display includes the traditional unadorned aluminum pole and animated figures engaging in Festivus activities, including the &#8220;Feats of Strength&#8221; and the &#8220;Airing of Grievances,&#8221; plus characters expressing amazement at easily explainable events which are called &#8220;Festivus miracles.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning, EPB expanded its Holiday Windows showcase to include a display just in time for the annual December 23 holiday Festivus. For over 60 years, EPB has upheld a tradition to decorate the windows of its downtown office with ornate Christmas scenes using trees, animated characters and thousands of lights, and this year, it made a controversial decision to include Festivus, an alternative holiday to Christmas. The Festivus display includes the traditional unadorned aluminum pole and animated figures engaging in Festivus activities, including the &#8220;Feats of Strength&#8221; and the &#8220;Airing of Grievances,&#8221; plus characters expressing amazement at easily explainable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}