{"id":44413,"date":"2025-11-19T03:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/44413\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T03:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T03:47:15","slug":"holiday-lights-display-returns-to-bronx-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/44413\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Holiday Lights&#8217; display returns to Bronx Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bronx Zoo flipped the switch on for its &#8220;Holiday Lights&#8221; display Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p>Families walked the grounds, took pictures and even roasted marshmallows on the preview night before it officially opens to the public on Nov. 21. <\/p>\n<p>Millions of lights and hundreds of illuminated animals are now sprawled across the Bronx landmark for the holiday season. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It allows us to invite people to the zoo in a different context,&#8221; shares Bronx Zoo director Jim Breheny on his love of the event. &#8220;The best thing that happens during Holiday Lights is if it snows!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This year, the display includes a new &#8220;Freeze Zone,&#8221; which features a snow slide, a virtual snow ball toss and photo-op&#8217;s with snowmen.<\/p>\n<p>The lights will be on display from Nov. 21 through Jan. 4 on select nights. <\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/BronxZoo.com\/holiday-lights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>to see the schedule and buy tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bronx Zoo flipped the switch on for its &#8220;Holiday Lights&#8221; display Tuesday night. Families walked the grounds,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,25507,969,9,24,63,129,131,130,5332],"class_list":["post-44413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-holiday-lights","tag-holidays","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-the-bronx-zoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}