{"id":2189557,"date":"2025-12-06T20:43:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2189557"},"modified":"2025-12-06T20:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:43:23","slug":"downtown-south-bend-kicks-off-holiday-season-with-first-fridays-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/downtown-south-bend-kicks-off-holiday-season-with-first-fridays-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown South Bend kicks off holiday season with First Fridays event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) &#8211; Downtown South Bend hosted its December First Fridays event, drawing residents for holiday celebrations featuring live music, performances and seasonal activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event included holiday music and performances by multiple bands. Attendees participated in photo opportunities, giveaways and holiday merchandise sales, with the evening concluding with fireworks and Santa Claus\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Granger residents Maddie and Michele Marlow attended the festivities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s great, especially right outside the South Bend Chocolate Factory, got me some hot chocolate,\u201d Maddie Marlow said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cYeah, it\u2019s wonderful with the snow, the early winter we have and everything, it just made the mood,\u201d Michele Marlow said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city\u2019s monthly First Fridays events serves as a community experience showcasing downtown South Bend businesses and attractions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\"><i>Copyright 2025 WNDU. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wndu.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) &#8211; Downtown South Bend hosted its December First Fridays event, drawing residents for holiday celebrations featuring live music, performances and seasonal activities. The event included holiday music and performances by multiple bands. Attendees participated in photo opportunities, giveaways and holiday merchandise sales, with the evening concluding with fireworks and Santa Claus\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[422610,422607,354542,422608,422609,353087,357244],"class_list":["post-2189557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-decembers-first-fridays","tag-downtown-south-bend","tag-first-fridays","tag-maddie-marlow","tag-michele-marlow","tag-south-bend","tag-wndu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2189558,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189557\/revisions\/2189558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}