{"id":35748,"date":"2017-08-07T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=35748"},"modified":"2017-08-07T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T10:47:00","slug":"our-town-with-grant-nickalls-laughing-at-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/our-town-with-grant-nickalls-laughing-at-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Town with Grant Nickalls: Laughing at life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Each week, Huntsville\u2019s own Grant Nickalls entertains us, inspires us, make us laugh and sometimes makes us cry, but always he reminds us why Huntsville is the best place on earth to call home.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Our Town is brought to you by:<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"47729\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n<p>This week in Our Town, Grant on finding the humour in life &#8211; sometimes all you can do is laugh (after a few f-bombs, that is).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p2IjAtPAzWg?rel=0\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Missed some of the Our Town with Grant Nickalls series? <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/category\/ourtown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to check out past videos<\/a><\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler! 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