{"id":21716,"date":"2018-12-10T18:09:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T18:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=21716"},"modified":"2018-12-10T18:09:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T18:09:30","slug":"whitchurch-woman-says-christmas-thieves-have-spoiled-village-festivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/whitchurch-woman-says-christmas-thieves-have-spoiled-village-festivities\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitchurch woman says Christmas thieves have spoiled village festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Christmas decorations are being stolen from front gardens in Cardiff, according to Hilary Johnston.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Whitchurch resident says Christmas thieves have ruined one of the village&#8217;s seasonal highlights.<br \/>\nHilary Johnston says she&#8217;s known locally as &#8220;the lady on the corner with the Christmas lights.&#8221; Each year, she projects Christmas illuminations across the front of her house. Her decorations are well known by local people who love viewing the lights as part of their annual festivities.<br \/>\nBut earlier this month, thieves stole Mrs Johnston&#8217;s projector from her front garden.<br \/>\nWhitchurch residents are just as upset as Mrs Johnston about the projector&#8217;s disappearance. Her neighbours say they have now been put off putting up their own Christmas lights. Her next\u00a0door neighbours are no longer interested in buying a\u00a0projector for their own home &#8212; she says\u00a0&#8216;they&#8217;re afraid somebody will\u00a0pinch it&#8217;.<br \/>\nOver the weekend, Christmas lights were also stolen from a house in Maes Glas in north Cardiff and residents have been expressing their anger.<br \/>\nMrs Johnston&#8217;s house is so famous in Whitchurch that local children refer to her house as &#8216;the Christmas house&#8217;. Despite all of this, Mrs Johnston says she appreciates the way the community has rallied round her and says her Christmas cheer is as strong as ever.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas decorations are being stolen from front gardens in Cardiff, according to Hilary Johnston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-21716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Whitchurch woman says Christmas thieves have spoiled village festivities - 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