{"id":23279,"date":"2015-10-12T08:15:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T14:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=23279"},"modified":"2015-10-12T08:15:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T14:15:22","slug":"what-your-christmas-tree-is-doing-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/what-your-christmas-tree-is-doing-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"What Your Christmas Tree is Doing Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A month from now folks will begin heading out into the woods &#8212; if they have a permit &#8212; to snag a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> tree from U.S. Forest lands. Those rare few will get a tree cheap, at least compared to the cost of an artificial tree from a store or a real tree grown and harvested from a tree farm. Artificial trees can be shopped for now &#8212; and real trees are being &#8220;processed&#8221;, even as folks enjoy the warmth of autumn. <\/p>\n<p>What is your tree doing right now?<\/p>\n<p>First, most are getting a hair cut:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DUxkjvVOWQ8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And in not too many weeks most will go for an amazing helicopter ride:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/08K_aEajzNA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the life of a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> tree is short &#8212; and usually ends poorly. (This video, by the way, is so redneck you almost think it is staged &#8212; <em>&#8220;Here! Hold my beer!&#8221;<\/em>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XMfWDXnx0D8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month from now folks will begin heading out into the woods &#8212; if they have a permit &#8212; to snag a Christmas tree from U.S. Forest lands. Those rare few will get a tree cheap, at least compared to the cost of an artificial tree from a store or a real tree grown and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-23279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-video","tag-christmas-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}