{"id":42098,"date":"2018-01-01T06:05:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T11:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=42098"},"modified":"2017-12-30T18:10:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T23:10:46","slug":"our-town-with-grant-nickalls-happy-new-year-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/our-town-with-grant-nickalls-happy-new-year-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Town with Grant Nickalls: Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, Huntsville&#8217;s own Grant Nickalls will inspire us, entertain us, make us laugh or perhaps cry, but always he will remind us why Huntsville is the best place on earth to call home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This week in Our Town, Grant recalls a message from his grandfather, one he tries to follow instead of New Year&#8217;s resolutions: just try to make each day a little better than the last. 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