{"id":846029,"date":"2026-11-05T05:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T05:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/846029\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T05:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T05:42:21","slug":"kc-royals-catcher-park-hill-alum-to-light-up-the-city-this-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/846029\/","title":{"rendered":"KC Royals catcher, Park Hill alum to \u2018light up the city\u2019 this holiday season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 The annual Plaza Lighting Ceremony returns for its 97th year, with help from one of Kansas City\u2019s own.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City Royals catcher Carter Jensen, who also graduated from Park Hill High School, is set to \u201cflip the switch\u201d to illuminate Country Club Plaza with thousands of lights.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793857341_482_.jpeg\" alt=\"Royals Twins Baseball\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"854\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bruce Kluckhohn\/AP Photo<\/p>\n<p>        Kansas City Royals&#8217; Carter Jensen celebrates his solo home run against the Minnesota Twins in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, June 6, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo\/Bruce Kluckhohn)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Plaza Lights are a Midwest staple that all Kansas Citians know and love, and to be able to do this in my hometown with my Kansas City family is an incredible honor,\u201d Jensen said in a press release. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to help celebrate the holidays, and this city, with everybody in a place we all cherish. My family and I are extremely grateful for this opportunity to help light up the city that raised me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lighting ceremony will take place Nov. 26, and the lights will remain on through Jan. 10, 2027, according to a press release from Country Club Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>The Nov. 26 event, which is open to the public and free to attend, kicks off at 5 p.m. Jensen will flip the switch at approximately 6:25 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Vocalocity, Miller Marley Dance Company, QUIXOTIC, and DJ Kirby Hamm are among the entertainment scheduled to perform at the ceremony, per a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The latest information can be found on the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/countryclubplaza.com\/?utm_source=GoogleMyBusiness&amp;utm_medium=Organic&amp;utm_campaign=GMB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Country Club Plaza website<\/a> and social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 The annual Plaza Lighting Ceremony returns for its 97th year, with help from one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,21682,102178,102193,66270,22308,936,2123,12624,55,2596,2595,4,102177,252],"class_list":["post-846029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-carter-jensen","tag-country-club-plaza","tag-holiday-lights","tag-holiday-season","tag-holidays","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-news","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-mlb","tag-plaza-lighting-ceremony","tag-royals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117562241643262453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}