{"id":3285,"date":"2020-12-17T11:30:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T17:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitaltoona.com\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2021-10-20T11:55:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T16:55:27","slug":"we-met-a-20-foot-santa-at-jolly-holiday-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitaltoona.com\/blog\/we-met-a-20-foot-santa-at-jolly-holiday-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"We met a 20-foot Santa at Jolly Holiday Lights."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a snowy winter evening, the Visit Altoona team hopped in the car, grabbed some peppermint cocoa and drove through the famous Jolly Holiday Lights\u2014<strong>open now through January 3<sup>rd<\/sup> at Adventureland. <\/strong>Along the 2.5-mile route, we encountered a 20-foot Santa shooting a basketball, an elf hoisting up giant candy canes via forklift, a polar bear belly-sliding across the snow, a wolf attempting (unsuccessfully) to blow down a brick house occupied by three little pigs, a penguin riding a 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