{"id":17746,"date":"2017-11-10T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=17746"},"modified":"2017-11-10T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T16:00:14","slug":"a-carnaby-christmas-the-switch-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/a-carnaby-christmas-the-switch-on\/","title":{"rendered":"A Carnaby Christmas: the switch on"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Carnaby hosted the annual party last night for the world-famous Christmas lights switch on.<\/h4>\n<p>Last night, those in Carnaby Street were able to start the festive season with a bang. The lights\u00a0switched on at 6pm, along with blasted confetti cannons and the soundtrack of DJ Norman Jay. Shoppers found themselves\u00a0immersed in shimmering installations, neon lights and discounted brands. It was a night of carnival themed entertainment and free pop-up cocktails that all enjoyed. Couldn&#8217;t make it? Check out our gallery below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<h6>\u00a9 Voice of London, Olivia Herring<\/h6>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">That\u2019s a wrap! Thanks to everyone who came down and enjoyed our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CarnabyChristmas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CarnabyChristmas<\/a> Carnival this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X2ktMrnbnP\">pic.twitter.com\/X2ktMrnbnP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carnaby London (@CarnabyLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarnabyLondon\/status\/928727716609888257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Words: Olivia Herring | Subbed: Erin Zhang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carnaby hosted the annual party last night for the world-famous Christmas lights switch on. Last night, those in Carnaby Street were able to start the festive season with a bang. The lights\u00a0switched on at 6pm,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":18237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,33,52,82,130,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-travel","category-culture","category-featured","category-lifestyle","category-travel","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}