{"id":14026,"date":"2019-10-15T12:58:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T16:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=14026"},"modified":"2019-10-15T13:59:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T17:59:34","slug":"gardens-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2019\/10\/15\/gardens-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Dazzling Chinese Lanterns At Montreal\u2019s Jardin Botanique"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the highlights of Montreal each fall is the \u201cGardens of Light,<\/a>\u201d which illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montr\u00e9al with dazzling lanterns this year from Sept. 6 to Oct. 31, 2019.<\/p>\n

The 27th annual display this fall, organizers say, is a \u201clantern-lit fishing tale. In the midst of this voyage in the purest Chinese tradition, the awe-inspiring fish He Luo Yu, a mythical creature with one head and ten bodies, suddenly surfaces and, to escape those bent on its capture, turns into a bird!\u201d<\/p>\n

The lanterns are dreamed up in Montreal, then designs are set to China to be sculpted by local artisans.<\/p>\n

Admission into \u201cGardens of Light\u201d\u2014which also includes lighting of the \u201cSacred Tree,\u201d a poplar in the First Nations Garden, and plantings in the Japanese Garden\u2014is by timed ticket only.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGardens of Light\u201d illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montr\u00e9al, September 2019. (\u00a9 Espace pour la vie \/ Claude Lafond)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cGardens of Light\u201d illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montr\u00e9al, September 2019. (\u00a9 Espace pour la vie \/ Claude Lafond)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cGardens of Light\u201d illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montr\u00e9al, September 2019. (\u00a9 Espace pour la vie \/ Claude Lafond)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cGardens of Light\u201d illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montr\u00e9al, September 2019. (\u00a9 Espace pour la vie \/ Claude Lafond)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cGardens of Light\u201d illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montr\u00e9al, September 2019. (\u00a9 Espace pour la vie \/ Claude Lafond)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\u201cGardens<\/a>
\u201cGardens of Light\u201d illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montr\u00e9al, September 2019. (\u00a9 Espace pour la vie \/ Claude Lafond)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cGardens of Light\u201d illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montr\u00e9al, September 2019. (\u00a9 Espace pour la vie \/ Claude Lafond)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cGardens of Light\u201d illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montr\u00e9al, September 2019. (\u00a9 Espace pour la vie \/ Claude Lafond)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\u201cGardens<\/a>
\u201cGardens of Light\u201d illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montr\u00e9al, September 2019. (\u00a9 Espace pour la vie \/ Claude Lafond)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\u201cGardens<\/a>
\u201cGardens of Light\u201d illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montr\u00e9al, September 2019. (\u00a9 Espace pour la vie \/ Claude Lafond)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\u201cGardens<\/a>
\u201cGardens of Light\u201d illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montr\u00e9al, September 2019. (\u00a9 Espace pour la vie \/ Claude Lafond)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\u201cGardens<\/a>
\u201cGardens of Light\u201d illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montr\u00e9al, September 2019. (\u00a9 Espace pour la vie \/ Claude Lafond)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\u201cGardens<\/a>
\u201cGardens of Light\u201d illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montr\u00e9al, September 2019. (\u00a9 Espace pour la vie \/ Claude Lafond)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\u201cGardens<\/a>
\u201cGardens of Light\u201d illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montr\u00e9al, September 2019. (\u00a9 Espace pour la vie \/ Claude Lafond)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\u201cGardens<\/a>
\u201cGardens of Light\u201d illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montr\u00e9al, September 2019. (\u00a9 Espace pour la vie \/ Claude Lafond)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the highlights of Montreal each fall is the \u201cGardens of Light,\u201d which illuminates the Chinese Garden at the Jardin Botanique de Montr\u00e9al with dazzling lanterns this year from Sept. 6 to Oct. 31, 2019. The 27th annual display this fall, organizers say, is a \u201clantern-lit fishing tale. In the midst of this voyage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,111,119,105],"tags":[627,628,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14029,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14026\/revisions\/14029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}