{"id":62529,"date":"2025-11-27T09:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/62529\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:59:07","slug":"ocala-listed-as-1-of-the-7-most-festive-downtowns-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/62529\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocala listed as 1 of the 7 most festive downtowns in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; You don\u2019t have to go to the North Pole to get into the Christmas spirit this holiday season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The World Atlas website published a list of the seven most festive downtowns in Florida, and Ocala made the list, joining the likes of St. Augustine and Mount Dora.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">TRENDING: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2025\/11\/26\/lake-city-mother-2-children-killed-multi-vehicle-wreck-us-90-suwannee-county\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Lake City mother, 2 children killed in multi-vehicle wreck on US 90 in Suwannee County<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The article identified Ocala\u2019s \u201cinviting atmosphere, warm community spirit, and scenic setting\u201d centered around the Downtown Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Thousands of people were on hand last weekend for the Light up Ocala event kicking off the Christmas season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; You don\u2019t have to go to the North Pole to get into the Christmas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1191,2318,30730,28,30,29,3833,4735,2649],"class_list":["post-62529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-christmas","tag-downtown","tag-festive","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-marion-county","tag-ncfl","tag-ocala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62529","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=62529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}