{"id":23620,"date":"2015-11-18T07:52:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T14:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=23620"},"modified":"2015-11-18T07:52:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T14:52:27","slug":"stars-align-for-national-tree-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/stars-align-for-national-tree-lighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars Align for National Tree Lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Tree Lighting Ceremony will take place on December 3rd and entertainment for the festive traditional event has been announced as Fall Out Boy, Andra Day, Tori Kelly, Trombone Shorty, Crosby, Stills &#038; Nash, Aloe Blacc, Kelsea Ballerini, and the Joyous String Quartet will all perform at the 2015 National <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Tree Lighting, presented by the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America\u2019s national parks.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s kick-off to the holiday season in the nation\u2019s capital marks the 93rd annual National <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Tree Lighting and will be held Thursday, Dec. 3, on the Ellipse at President\u2019s Park (White House).<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Bounce AEG, the ceremony begins at 4:30 p.m. ET with the exclusive National <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Tree Lighting pre-show. Didn\u2019t get tickets? The event can be seen on public television throughout the month of December. For broadcast times, check local listings or the <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nationalparks.org\/page.redir?target=http%3A%2F%2Fthenationaltree.org%2F&#038;srcid=94749&#038;srctid=1&#038;erid=83680736&#038;trid=55a26d26-ef09-416b-9e70-24cd6893070e\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>National Christmas Tree Lighting website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Tree Lighting Ceremony will take place on December 3rd and entertainment for the festive traditional event has been announced as Fall Out Boy, Andra Day, Tori Kelly, Trombone Shorty, Crosby, Stills &#038; Nash, Aloe Blacc, Kelsea Ballerini, and the Joyous String Quartet will all perform at the 2015 National Christmas Tree Lighting, presented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23621,"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":16,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,28,2,99],"tags":[443],"class_list":["post-23620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-events","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-news","category-christmas-television","tag-national-tree-lighting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23620","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=23620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}