{"id":4019,"date":"2025-12-16T18:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/?p=4019"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:52:10","slug":"2025-lights-at-the-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/2025-lights-at-the-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Lights at the Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This past Saturday, the 13th, we made our annual pilgrimage to see Lights before Christmas<\/a> at the Toledo Zoo<\/a>. We went with Dave, Emily, and the 3 GKs, Brayden, Zoey and Cohen. Unfortunately, Mike, Rhonda, and MJ did not join us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an absolute gem for the city of Toledo. I believe there are over a million lights each year. The ultimate site is the huge pine tree with thousands of lights. A few years ago, they switched them to programmable LEDs, so now we have a show too. Just beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was a single-digit temperature night, so hot chocolate was a must. Several stops at some of the inside displays allowed us to warm up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We then enjoyed dinner at The Beer Barrel Pizza and Grill<\/a> restaurant. They have a big menu, so there is something for everyone to enjoy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are some pics from the night. Enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past Saturday, the 13th, we made our annual pilgrimage to see Lights before Christmas at the Toledo Zoo. We went with Dave, Emily, and the 3 GKs, Brayden, Zoey and Cohen. Unfortunately, Mike, Rhonda, and MJ did not join us. This is an absolute gem for the city of Toledo. I believe there are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":54,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-life","category-leisure"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nggallery_import\/IMG_1314.jpg",1024,768,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nggallery_import\/IMG_1314-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nggallery_import\/IMG_1314-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nggallery_import\/IMG_1314-768x576.jpg",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nggallery_import\/IMG_1314.jpg",1024,768,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nggallery_import\/IMG_1314.jpg",1024,768,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nggallery_import\/IMG_1314.jpg",1024,768,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

This past Saturday, the 13th, we made our annual pilgrimage to see Lights before Christmas at the Toledo Zoo. We went with Dave, Emily, and the 3 GKs, Brayden, Zoey and Cohen. Unfortunately, Mike, Rhonda, and MJ did not join us. This is an absolute gem for the city of Toledo. I believe there are over a million lights each year. The ultimate site is the huge pine tree with thousands of lights. A few years ago, they switched them to programmable LEDs, so now we have a show too. Just beautiful. It was a single-digit temperature night, so hot…<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Everyday Life<\/a>, Leisure<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"emcher","url":"https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/author\/emcher\/"},"comments_num_v2":"2 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4040,"href":"https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions\/4040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emcher.com\/emchioi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}