{"id":30668,"date":"2019-11-21T13:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T13:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=30668"},"modified":"2019-11-21T13:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T13:42:26","slug":"a-christmas-pop-up-which-is-set-to-brighten-up-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/21\/a-christmas-pop-up-which-is-set-to-brighten-up-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas pop-up which is set to brighten up Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fairy lights extravaganza has popped up in Birmingham with \u201cenough illuminations to reach the top of Everest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once Upon A Time In Birmingham has opened its doors in the old Jamie&#8217;s Italian restaurant overlooking St Martin&#8217;s Square.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the spectacle that would occur if an entire city\u2019s fairy lights were garlanded in a single space\u2026The merry and bright installation will not only be illuminating, but also delicious with all the menu items designed to glow or sparkle.<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas installation features 88,000 fairy lights, over 9km of lights and a host of mirrors in a grand sparkling interior. This is more festive lights per square foot than anywhere else in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Staff will serve drinks that glow, sparkle, and change colour and as well as an array of innovative festive food.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been designed by Bompas &amp; Parr who wanted to celebrate the humble fairy light.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Lacey, general manager at Bullring &amp; Grand Central, said: \u201cOnce Upon a Time in Birmingham will be a truly immersive experience that is not to be missed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At Bullring &amp; Grand Central, we\u2019ve got a great track record of putting on events that amaze and delight, and this will be no different. Birmingham has never seen anything like this before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Customers can also take part in carol-oke and Christmas games during their visit.<\/p>\n<p>Once Upon A Time in Birmingham is open from now until December 23.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure to book your tickets now as its a not to be missed event for this festive season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fairy lights extravaganza has popped up in Birmingham with \u201cenough illuminations to reach the top of Everest.\u201d Once Upon A Time In Birmingham has opened its doors in the old Jamie&#8217;s Italian restaurant overlooking St Martin&#8217;s Square. Imagine the spectacle that would occur if an entire city\u2019s fairy lights were garlanded in a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,112,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-top-stories","category-whats-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}