{"id":18748,"date":"2012-10-10T08:25:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T13:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=18748"},"modified":"2012-10-10T08:25:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T13:25:35","slug":"wine-festival-parade-float-a-grande-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/10\/wine-festival-parade-float-a-grande-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine festival parade float a &#8216;grande&#8217; success"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18753\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18753\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18753\" title=\"brock-grand-parade\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/brock-grand-parade-2012048-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"Brock's award-winning float in the Niagara Wine Festival Grande Parade featured a smoking cannon.\" width=\"504\" height=\"328\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brock&#39;s award-winning float in the Niagara Wine Festival Grande Parade featured a smoking cannon.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s an award that comes with bragging rights and a ribbon.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Brock University won the <a title=\"Niagara Wine Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarawinefestival.com\/page\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Niagara Wine Festival<\/a> Vintage Award, Best National Entry, for its float commemorating the bicentennial of the War of 1812 in the festival&#8217;s Grande Parade.<\/p>\n<p>The historic endeavour, which featured a smoking cannon, was organized by Amanda Hemingway, assistant to the President and the University&#8217;s events co-ordinator, and Curtis Gadula, manager of off-campus living and neighbourhood relations.<\/p>\n<p>Facilities management helped create the props to make the float a success and student volunteers helped with preparation and participated in the parade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an award that comes with bragging rights and a ribbon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":18753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[585,552,364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18755,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18748\/revisions\/18755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}