{"id":58874,"date":"2025-11-24T15:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58874\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:26:11","slug":"jack-kazanzas-star-was-installed-50-feet-above-downtown-orlando-on-sunday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58874\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Kazanzas Star was installed 50 feet above downtown Orlando on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The Jack Kazanzas Star was put up on Sunday, November 23, and hung 50 feet above downtown Orlando at the corner of Orange Avenue and Pine Street, signaling the beginning of the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\">This Orlando holiday tradition has been celebrated for over 50 years and involves raising a 600-pound golden star that symbolizes the city\u2019s festive spirit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\">The star\u2019s installation marks the beginning of Orlando\u2019s holiday celebrations, a tradition dating back to the 1950s that unites residents and visitors with the star placed above the streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\">The Jack Kazanzas Star symbolizes holiday spirit, overlooking Orange Avenue and embodying enduring traditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763997971_409_APP DOWNLOAD LOCAL_1541693885678.jpg_13622062_ver1.0.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 kzYdlV body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The Jack Kazanzas Star was put up on Sunday, November 23, and hung 50 feet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[35867,634,115,35868,139,141,140,35869,1045],"class_list":["post-58874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-jack_kazanza","tag-local","tag-news","tag-orange_avenue","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-pine_street","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}