{"id":39565,"date":"2023-11-29T20:15:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T01:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=39565"},"modified":"2023-11-29T20:15:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T01:15:21","slug":"where-are-the-best-holiday-lights-in-lakeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/11\/29\/where-are-the-best-holiday-lights-in-lakeland\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Are The Best Holiday Lights In Lakeland?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Send us your favorite light display in Lakeland.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"450\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Christmas-Lights-Displays-Lakeland-Florida-Polk-County-1.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39566\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For many of us, taking in our neighbors\u2019 outdoor holiday lighting displays and other decorative touches is as much a part of the season as exchanging gifts and singing Christmas carols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland Gazette is compiling a list of lights around Lakeland that deserve a drive-by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a good reason twinkling holiday lights and colorful displays make us feel good, according to mental health experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt does create that&nbsp;neurological shift that can produce happiness,\u201d Psychologist Deborah Serani, a senior professor at New York\u2019s Adelphi University, told NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show. \u201cI think anything that takes us out of our normal habituation, the normal day in, day out &#8230; signals our senses, and then our senses measure if it\u2019s pleasing or not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Decorating for the holidays \u201cwill&nbsp;spike dopamine, a feel-good hormone,\u201d she said. \u201cFor a lot of us, Christmas is a magical time, it\u2019s a time of innocence. It\u2019s a time of joy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So who has the best light displays in Lakeland? Email <a href=\"mailto:Lakelandgazette@gmail.com\">Lakelandgazette@gmail.com<\/a> and let us know the address. Also please send a photo (that you took yourself) to appear in our holiday roundup!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Send us your favorite light display in Lakeland. For many of us, taking in our neighbors\u2019 outdoor holiday lighting displays and other decorative touches is as much a part of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[6893],"class_list":["post-39565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-where-are-the-best-holiday-lights-in-lakeland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39568,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39565\/revisions\/39568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}