{"id":48493,"date":"2025-11-03T16:43:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hickorync.gov\/calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=48493"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:27:23","slug":"holidaypalooza","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.hickorync.gov\/calendar\/event\/holidaypalooza\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidaypalooza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node__content clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Celebrate a wonderful season of holiday events in Hickory! Festivities kick off on Friday, Nov. 21, with the City of Hickory\u2019s Lowes Foods Christmas Parade &amp; Tree Lighting and continue through December.<\/p>\n<p>A special Holidaypalooza event will be presented by the City of Hickory, the Hickory Downtown Development Association (HDDA), and the Hickory Farmers Market on Saturday, Nov. 21, from 11 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. on Union Square in downtown Hickory.<\/p>\n<p>The merry event will offer visits with Santa Claus and the Thanksgiving Turkey from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Santa will then host a holiday story time at 1 p.m. with help from his friends at Hickory Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the Holidaypalooza event downtown, kids will be able to write letters to Santa at the HDDA table and participate in fun, holiday activities provided by Hickory Public Library staff.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, this year for the first time, the Hickory Farmers Market will host a holiday market from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in conjunction with this event.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the downtown businesses and the holiday market for all your holiday treats and shopping.<\/p>\n<p>For a listing of additional holiday events happening around Hickory, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hickorync.gov\/holidaypalooza\"><strong>www.hickorync.gov\/holidaypalooza<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate a wonderful season of holiday events in Hickory! Festivities kick off on Friday, Nov. 21, with the City of Hickory\u2019s Lowes Foods Christmas Parade &amp; Tree Lighting and continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43940,"template":"","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[380],"tribe_events_cat":[3,435],"class_list":["post-48493","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-holidaypalooza","tribe_events_cat-brand-event","tribe_events_cat-community-event","cat_brand-event","cat_community-event"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickorync.gov\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/48493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickorync.gov\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickorync.gov\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickorync.gov\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickorync.gov\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/48493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50969,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickorync.gov\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/48493\/revisions\/50969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickorync.gov\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickorync.gov\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickorync.gov\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48493"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickorync.gov\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=48493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}