{"id":2487,"date":"2013-12-04T18:48:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T23:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beckydimattia.com\/photoblog\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2014-04-26T13:05:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T17:05:19","slug":"lights-comm-ave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckydimattia.com\/photoblog\/2013\/12\/04\/lights-comm-ave\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights on Comm Ave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One of my favorite signs of the season is the Christmas lights on the trees lining the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofboston.gov\/parks\/emerald\/Comm_Mall.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Commonwealth Avenue Mall<\/a> (the tree-lined path running between the two lines of the wide avenue along the spine of Back Bay between Mass Ave and the Public Gardens). As I walked down the mall, I got this year&#8217;s first glimpse of the lights and I even saw the guy who was hanging some of the lights!<\/p>\n<p><!-- default-view.php -->\n<div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview default-view\n\t ngg-ajax-pagination-none\t\"\n\tid=\"ngg-gallery-062e8521016155366f9de3f7e028be12-1\"\n\tdata-nextgen-gallery-id=\"141\"\n\tdata-gallery-id=\"141\"\n\t\tdata-gallery-name=\"2013 12 04  comm ave lights\"\n\t>\n\n\t\t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tngg-5-columns\t\t\t\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n\t\t<a 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