{"id":9587,"date":"2014-09-09T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/not-all-christmas-trees-are-made-of-trees\/"},"modified":"2014-09-10T15:31:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T15:31:30","slug":"not-all-christmas-trees-are-made-of-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/not-all-christmas-trees-are-made-of-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Not All Christmas Trees are Made of Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Life in the desert or tropical climates can make a Christmas<\/a> freak feel a little lonely. <\/p>\n

When you get that hankering for frosty air, roasting chestnuts and one-horse open sleighing it is hard to be merry when sand is your snow and the heat of the sun has you hanging lights<\/a> in shorts. Nothing, but nothing, cures those cruel Christmas<\/a> blues better than putting up a Christmas<\/a> tree. <\/p>\n

And you don\u2019t have to have a pine to make a Christmas<\/a> tree. All you need is a little imagination. Consider this tropical beauty without a single light:<\/p>\n

\"BbFlZwPIUAA_Htz\"<\/p>\n

Folks in Florida, or at least parts of it, know what I\u2019m talking about:<\/p>\n

\"westpalmbeach\"<\/p>\n

Food is a popular tree building ingredient. They look great and taste delicious:<\/p>\n

\"strawberry\"<\/p>\n

Of course, being male and a carnivore, this tree made of shrimp (swiped from a 1970s-era magazine) is not only festive it is very manly:<\/p>\n

\"ShrimpTree2\"<\/p>\n

Since we\u2019re talking testosterone no Christmas<\/a> would be truly festive without one of these \u201ckeep-the-grandkids-back\u201d babies in the house:<\/p>\n

\"hunting\"<\/p>\n

Guys might be creative when it comes to making trees out of alternative materials. But you don\u2019t ever want a man left to his own devices when decorating a tree:<\/p>\n

\"horsehead\"<\/p>\n

And finally, we love<\/a> themed trees, especially those that reflect local culture. Check out this tree made of lobster traps from Rockland, Maine:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Life in the desert or tropical climates can make a Christmas freak feel a little lonely. When you get that hankering for frosty air, roasting chestnuts and one-horse open sleighing it is hard to be merry when sand is your snow and the heat of the sun has you hanging lights in shorts. Nothing, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9588,"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":20,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9587","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=9587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}