{"id":23548,"date":"2016-11-29T19:47:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T03:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23548"},"modified":"2016-11-29T19:47:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T03:47:11","slug":"capitol-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/capitol-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Trees to Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cltre.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0beautiful California tree was NOT chosen in 2016 to grace the Nation&#8217;s Capitol but closer to home at our California State Capitol in Sacramento a\u00a060-foot-tall white fir from Latour Demonstration State Forest near Redding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/trees\/sacramento-capitol-tree.html\">gets lit on Monday, Dec. 5<\/a> in the 85th annual tree lighting\u00a0ceremony.\u00a0 Governor Brown and First Lady Anne Gust Brown will light the Capitol Christmas tree with 7-year-old twin boys, Alex and Alan Rosales of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a094th annual National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony (thenationaltree.org) on Dec. 1, 2016 includes guest host\u00a0Eva Longoria and performances by\u00a0\u00a0Chance the Rapper, Kelly Clarkson,\u00a0Yolanda Adams,\u00a0James Taylor, The Lumineers, Marc Anthony,\u00a0Afro Blue,\u00a0The Airmen of Note\u00a0and\u00a0Simone Manuel.\u00a0President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will light the tree in President&#8217;s Park in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0beautiful California tree was NOT chosen in 2016 to grace the Nation&#8217;s Capitol but closer to home at our California State Capitol in Sacramento a\u00a060-foot-tall white fir from Latour Demonstration State Forest near Redding gets lit on Monday, Dec. 5 in the 85th annual tree lighting\u00a0ceremony.\u00a0 Governor Brown and First Lady Anne Gust Brown will [&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\/23548"}],"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=23548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}