{"id":73310,"date":"2025-12-02T20:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/73310\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T20:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:20:08","slug":"lighted-vehicle-parade-kicks-off-plano-christmas-celebration-on-friday-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/73310\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighted vehicle parade kicks off Plano Christmas celebration on Friday \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Plano\u2019s annual Rockin\u2019 Christmas celebration returns Friday with a lighted vehicle parade, live music, and holiday activities downtown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Plano\u2019s lighted vehicle parade begins at 6:30 p.m. Friday with a lineup at 5:45 p.m. at Plano High School. The decorated vehicles will arrive at the Plano depot about 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">The Ross Greiter Spirit Award will be presented at 6:55 p.m., recognizing the person who best represents the \u201cSpirit of Christmas\u201d throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Plano Middle School Jazz Band will play Christmas music at 6:40 pm, followed by the Emily G Johns Band at 7:05 pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Additional activities include meeting Santa and the Grinch, the lighting of Main Street, appearances by school mascots, and free cookies and hot cocoa at the depot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Help neighbors in need by sponsoring a gift card for a holiday dinner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">For more information, call Plano City Hall 630-552-8275 or visit Plano Rockin\u2019 Christmas\u2019 Facebook page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano\u2019s annual Rockin\u2019 Christmas celebration returns Friday with a lighted vehicle parade, live music, and holiday activities downtown.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[7748,1440,160,162,161,16758,36581],"class_list":{"0":"post-73310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-christmas","9":"tag-kendall-county","10":"tag-plano","11":"tag-plano-headlines","12":"tag-plano-news","13":"tag-shaw-local-front-headlines","14":"tag-the-scene-will-grundy-counties"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}