{"id":28695,"date":"2017-11-16T13:04:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T20:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28695"},"modified":"2017-12-01T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T19:15:13","slug":"campus-community-invited-to-march-in-festival-of-lights-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28695","title":{"rendered":"Campus community invited to march in Festival of Lights Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17325\" style=\"width: 555px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_9316.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17325\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_9316-555x369.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_9316-555x369.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_9316-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_9316-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_9316.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCCS students, faculty and staff led the 2014 Colorado Springs Festival of Lights.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s time for the UCCS community to bundle up for the 33<sup>rd<\/sup> Festival of Lights Parade, happening 5:50 p.m. Dec. 2 on Tejon Street in downtown Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s float will feature a replica of El Pomar Center\u2019s clock tower along with Christmas trees and lights, said Stephen Cucchiara, assistant director, Office of Student Activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be more illuminated than ever before,\u201d Cucchiara said.<\/p>\n<p>Students, staff, faculty and family members are invited to show off their UCCS pride while marching past more than 60,000 spectators. Cucchiara hopes at least 100 people will participate in this year\u2019s parade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great opportunity to celebrate UCCS in the community and we hope to continue to build on this tradition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The new and improved float will be on display Dec. 1 at the Campus Services building.<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in marching should email the <a href=\"mailto:osa@uccs.edu?subject=Festival%20of%20Lights%20Parade\">Office of Student Activities<\/a> by Dec. 1.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Colorado Springs Festival of Lights Parade, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradospringsfestivaloflights.com\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It\u2019s time for the UCCS community to bundle up for the 33rd Festival of Lights Parade, happening Dec. 2 on Tejon Street in downtown Colorado Springs. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=28695\" title=\"Campus community invited to march in Festival of Lights Parade\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":17325,"comment_status":"open","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-upcoming-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_9316.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-7sP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28695","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28875,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28695\/revisions\/28875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}