{"id":17401,"date":"2024-06-25T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=17401"},"modified":"2024-06-25T13:00:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T17:00:51","slug":"wall-to-gain-added-christmas-decorations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/wall-to-gain-added-christmas-decorations\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall to gain added Christmas decorations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may be a bit odd to talk about Christmas decorations amid all the heat we&#8217;ve been having and the Fourth of July looming,but Decatur&#8217;s city council agreed at its latest meeting to add some new holiday decorations for the city&#8217;s Founders Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The park, the city&#8217;s newest, is on the southwest corner the Second and Monroe street intersection, across from City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/E7BDD6C937A44F5CB6FB6787550952BB.jpg?resize=640%2C362&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/E7BDD6C937A44F5CB6FB6787550952BB.jpg?w=678&amp;ssl=1 678w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/E7BDD6C937A44F5CB6FB6787550952BB.jpg?resize=300%2C170&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Craig Coshow, a member of the city&#8217;s board of works and a former city council member, told council he was representing Louise Ray and Cathee Graves, chief organizers for the annual Christmas Opening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coshow said Ray found some angel decorations in a garage and would like to place six or eight of them on the park&#8217;s large south wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The angels are four to five feet high, Coshow said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the park opened a few years ago, the only Christmas decoration on the wall has been a large wreath on its eastern corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEverything Louise has done for the city is good,\u201d Councilwoman Jenny Bowers-Shultz said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYes, always,\u201d Coshow added before council gave its approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com It may be a bit odd to talk about Christmas decorations amid all the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-17401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}