{"id":12190,"date":"2020-10-01T17:03:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T17:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12190"},"modified":"2020-10-01T17:03:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T17:03:04","slug":"the-2020-holiday-season-is-upon-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12190","title":{"rendered":"The 2020 holiday season is upon us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By TONY VINDELL<br><\/strong>LFN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Resized_20200921_133311.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Resized_20200921_133311.jpg 980w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Resized_20200921_133311-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Resized_20200921_133311-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>Christmas-related items on display at a home improvement store. <\/em><\/strong>Photo: Tony Vindell \/ LFN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With so much happening in the news today, who would ever think of a new holiday season?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One hurricane after another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pandemic that has been changing the way people think, act, eat and shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A presidential election that is coming soon and expected by many, whichever the outcome, to be historic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And coming soon, is the 2020 holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That includes Halloween in October, and Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will large family gatherings be held on turkey day?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How about going on a buying frenzy the day after?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should people buy candies for the perennial trick or treaters?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next comes Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts say the fears of acquiring the virus that has killed more than 2,600 people in the Rio Grande Valley and 200,000 nationwide is impacting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>people\u2019s lives, but a home improvement store has already set up a sizeable display of Christmas-related items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, are you ready for a new holiday season?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By TONY VINDELLLFN With so much happening in the news today, who would ever think of a new holiday season? One hurricane after another. A pandemic that has been changing the way people think, act, eat and shop. A presidential election that is coming soon and expected by many, whichever the outcome, to be historic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-12190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12201,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12190\/revisions\/12201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}