{"id":6000,"date":"2012-05-18T06:11:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T10:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=6000"},"modified":"2012-05-18T10:21:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T14:21:42","slug":"lake-champlain-bridge-opening-festival-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/05\/18\/lake-champlain-bridge-opening-festival-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Champlain bridge opening festival this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6001\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6001\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/05\/18\/lake-champlain-bridge-opening-festival-this-weekend\/champlain-bridge-photo110818-2\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6001\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6001\" title=\"champlain bridge photo110818\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/05\/champlain-bridge-photo110818-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/05\/champlain-bridge-photo110818-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/05\/champlain-bridge-photo110818-150x140.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/05\/champlain-bridge-photo110818-450x422.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/05\/champlain-bridge-photo110818.jpg 746w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Lake Champlain bridge span being lifted into place (Photo:  Brian Mann)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This  weekend marks the official grand opening of the Lake Champlain bridge  from Crown Point to Addison, Vermont.\u00a0 Nearly three years after the old  bridge was condemned and closed to traffic, the new span will see two  days of dances, parades, music, and a flotilla on lake.<\/p>\n<p>The key-note speaker at the gathering will be Ted Zoli, the  designer of the new bridge, who grew up in Glens Falls.\u00a0\u00a0 The bash will  end Sunday night with a fireworks show.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge will be closed for about an hour around 11 am on Saturday for  one part of the celebration, which will mean traffic delays in the  area.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Addison County Independent newspaper, as many as 10,000  people are expected to attend the two-day festival.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be  there and will have more on this story Monday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-size: x-small;\">For a complete schedule of events, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.champlainbridgecommunity.org\/\">go here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend marks the official grand opening of the Lake Champlain bridge from Crown Point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4839,10,4802,879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6002,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6000\/revisions\/6002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}