{"id":1913,"date":"2006-12-19T08:31:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T16:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/thats_dedication.html"},"modified":"2006-12-19T08:31:11","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T16:31:11","slug":"thats_dedicatio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/thats_dedicatio.html","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devising excessive Christmas light displays may not sound like the wisest thing to if you&#8217;re prone to getting seizures, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/boroughs\/story\/481365p-405102c.html\">some are truly touched with the holiday spirit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The decorating starts on Halloween. The lights switch on the day after Thanksgiving. And come Jan. 1, the electric bill is $800 more than usual.<\/p>\n<p>But Joseph DeGaetano and Robert Sibrizzi say putting up thousands of Christmas lights on their neighboring Bayside homes &#8212; and scores of other decorations in the front and back yards, garages and driveways &#8212; is well worth the time and money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you just see the little kids coming around and the smiles on their faces, it gives you a nice, warm feeling,&#8221; said Sibrizzi, who lives with his partner, DeGaetano in a house next door to DeGaetano&#8217;s parents.<\/p>\n<p>Sibrizzi is epileptic, but the condition hardly dampens his holiday spirit.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old loved decorating his parents&#8217; Bronx house when he was growing up, and continued the tradition when he moved to 205th St. in Bayside about a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He does what he wants and goes where he wants,&#8221; DeGaetano said. &#8220;[Epilepsy] doesn&#8217;t really hinder him. If he has a seizure, he just rests a while and goes right back at it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devising excessive Christmas light displays may not sound like the wisest thing to if you&#8217;re prone to getting seizures, but some are truly touched with the holiday spirit: The decorating starts on Halloween. The lights switch on the day after Thanksgiving. And come Jan. 1, the electric bill is $800 more than usual. But Joseph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}