{"id":7605,"date":"2017-12-26T15:47:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T23:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=7605"},"modified":"2017-12-26T15:52:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T23:52:29","slug":"putting-the-santa-in-santa-cruz-christmas-lights-train-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2017\/12\/26\/putting-the-santa-in-santa-cruz-christmas-lights-train-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting the \u201cSanta\u201d in \u201cSanta Cruz\u201d: Christmas Lights Train 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the way back in 2011, we enjoyed taking the lads on a Christmasy train ride through town (see little\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jnack\/sets\/72157628545989083\/\">gallery<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZD85R9OPvbA\">vid<\/a>). Given that Hen\u2019s passion for trains has only increased, this year we brought along Grandpa Liggett for an evening ride that featured letter-writing to the big guy, visits from Mrs. Claus &amp; then Santa, and finally some requisite \u201ccooling off\u201d at Marianne\u2019s Ice Cream. <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/pr0e5zHkFnYMMZPG3\"><strong>Check out the gallery<\/strong><\/a> and the short video below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[Retro bonus trains: See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2013\/12\/17\/christmas-lights-train-2013\/\">Christmas Lights Train 2013<\/a>\u00a0(the tiny one in the park), the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cgUCtD455oU\">Chicago CTA Lights Train in 2012<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZWUVN7M9Vh0\">Oakland Zoo Lights<\/a> all the way back in 2010.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/pr0e5zHkFnYMMZPG3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/INewImage-6.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"530\" height=\"378\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yMFnsblDj7U\" width=\"530\" height=\"960\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the way back in 2011, we enjoyed taking the lads on a Christmasy train ride through town (see little\u00a0gallery &amp; vid). Given that Hen\u2019s passion for trains has only increased, this year we brought along Grandpa Liggett for an evening ride that featured letter-writing to the big guy, visits from Mrs. Claus &amp; then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7611,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions\/7611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}