{"id":144128,"date":"2022-12-07T09:56:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T16:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=144128"},"modified":"2022-12-07T09:56:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T16:56:51","slug":"photo-feature-uccs-at-the-festival-of-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=144128","title":{"rendered":"Photo Feature: UCCS at the Festival of Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-effect=\"slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2776\" height=\"2082\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-144133\" data-id=\"144133\" src=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Festival-1.jpg\" 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UCCS Student Life also put together a float for the parade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0Parade\u00a0is the first Saturday in December each year and features nearly 100 beautifully lighted and decorated floats. The event brings in 40,000-50,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photos provided by the UCCS Alumni team and Student Life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The UCCS Alumni and Friends Association held a Festival of Lights event at UCCS Downtown that had almost 150 people in attendance. UCCS Student Life also put together a float for the parade. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=144128\" title=\"Photo Feature: UCCS at the Festival of Lights\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":144135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,12,13],"tags":[370,107,332,197,63],"class_list":["post-144128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-events","category-photo-features","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-relations","tag-more-news","tag-photo-feature","tag-student-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Festival-3.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-BuE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144145,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144128\/revisions\/144145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}