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If all the lights, decorations, and general hoopla was about some nebulous Winter Festival \u2026 Why are businesses taking down all the decorations when winter\u2019s just begun?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nQuestion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If all the lights, decorations, and general hoopla was about some nebulous Winter Festival ... 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