{"id":21516,"date":"2015-11-07T02:27:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T10:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=21516"},"modified":"2015-11-07T02:35:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T10:35:39","slug":"capitol-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/capitol-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Capitol Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/uscaptre.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While California has provided\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/trees\/national-christmas-tree.html\">at least four U.S. Capitol Christmas Trees<\/a>\u00a0for the White House lawn,\u00a0this year\u00a0a perfect 74-foot\u00a0Lutz spruce from Chugach National Forest in Alaska was chosen. It set history yesterday, arriving in Tacoma\u00a0by sea. The first tree to travel by water\u00a0and\u00a0first tree selected from Alaska finishes its\u00a04,000 mile journey on a truck, making publicity stops along the way. On\u00a0December 2, 2015 at 5 p.m. the public is invited to the big\u00a0Tree Lighting Ceremony on the West Capitol Lawn. Through January 1, 2016 you can see the\u00a0lit tree\u00a0from nightfall until 11 p.m. each evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to pick the Capitol Tree:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Height should be\u00a065-85 feet<\/li>\n<li>Shape must be perfectly conical\u00a0for viewing from all sides<\/li>\n<li>Straight stem, uniform branching, natural density and a good rich color are a must!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While California has provided\u00a0at least four U.S. Capitol Christmas Trees\u00a0for the White House lawn,\u00a0this year\u00a0a perfect 74-foot\u00a0Lutz spruce from Chugach National Forest in Alaska was chosen. It set history yesterday, arriving in Tacoma\u00a0by sea. The first tree to travel by water\u00a0and\u00a0first tree selected from Alaska finishes its\u00a04,000 mile journey on a truck, making publicity stops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21516"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}