{"id":8369,"date":"2023-03-11T12:36:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T19:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=8369"},"modified":"2023-05-09T11:59:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T18:59:20","slug":"portland-winter-light-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=8369","title":{"rendered":"Portland Winter Light Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/pdxwlf.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pdxwlf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Portland Winter Light festival<\/a> has been going on for 8 years now. I love going to visit the amazing artistic light creations people create &#8211; as well some quality people watching of folks that dress up in their own light costume creations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter is-style-rectangular\" 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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-8370\" data-id=\"8370\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/03\/3854766f-0c07-4c8b-9243-1dae2dc99a8e-WLF17.jpg?resize=640%2C421&#038;ssl=1\" 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swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While it wasn&#8217;t quite as amazing as it has been in years past, there were noticeably fewer new displays, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/psuvanguard.com\/portlands-downtown-struggles-to-bring-back-visitors\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/psuvanguard.com\/portlands-downtown-struggles-to-bring-back-visitors\/\" target=\"_blank\">crowds were dramatically down<\/a>, it was still a lot of fun to enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/pdxwlf.com\/experience\/constellations\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pdxwlf.com\/experience\/constellations\/\" target=\"_blank\">CETI collective Constellation display<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ceti.institute\/programs\/constellations\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ceti.institute\/programs\/constellations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more pictures here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Winter Light festival has been going on for 8 years now. I love going to visit the amazing artistic light creations people create &#8211; as well some quality people watching of folks that dress up in their own light costume creations. While it wasn&#8217;t quite as amazing as it has been in years past, there were noticeably fewer new displays, and crowds were dramatically down, it was still a lot of fun to enjoy. CETI collective Constellation display&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=8369\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artdesign","category-cool","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2aZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8369"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8736,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions\/8736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}