{"id":23615,"date":"2015-11-17T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=23615"},"modified":"2015-11-17T04:13:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T11:13:29","slug":"an-australian-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/an-australian-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"An Australian Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a quick peak at how they do it in Australia where in the city of Geelong they float their tree out to the harbor and light it up. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> tree symbolises everything wonderful about this time of year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> appeared briefly beside the Mayor but it was all about the tree anchored out in the water, on a barge, for the second year in a row. That\u2019s what the people had come to see.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BaQe7ftfRqE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> tree has added features in its second year with a new soundtrack and smoke effects.<\/p>\n<p>It started with Michael Buble\u2019s It\u2019s Beginning to Look Like <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> gave way to Rocking Around the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> tree and smoke swirled around the tree and <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">lights<\/a> splayed out.<\/p>\n<p>Youngster Harry McLean, 7, won a competition to assist the mayor in the official switching on duties<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a quick peak at how they do it in Australia where in the city of Geelong they float their tree out to the harbor and light it up. \u201cThe Christmas tree symbolises everything wonderful about this time of year.\u201d Santa appeared briefly beside the Mayor but it was all about the tree anchored out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23616,"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":15,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,2],"tags":[441,442],"class_list":["post-23615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-news","tag-australia","tag-geelong-christmas-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23615","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=23615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}