{"id":4023,"date":"2007-12-24T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4023"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:43:49","slug":"christmas-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4023","title":{"rendered":"Christmas trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some views of Christmas trees world-wide. Thank you Bernadette for sending me these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rockefeller Center in NY city &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/rockefeller_tree_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14286\" title=\"Rockefeller_tree_07\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/rockefeller_tree_07.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/rockefeller_tree_07-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trafalgar Square. The tree is a gift from Norway &#8211; they&#8217;ve been sending a Christmas tree as a gift since 1947 as a token of thanks for Britain&#8217;s aid in World War II<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"758\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/trafalgar_treee07.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14285\" title=\"Trafalgar_treee07\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/trafalgar_treee07.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/trafalgar_treee07-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Tokyo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tokyo_tree.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14284\" title=\"Tokyo_tree\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tokyo_tree.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tokyo_tree-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Prague<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/prague_tree.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14283\" title=\"Prague_tree\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/prague_tree.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/prague_tree-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington D.C. The Capitol Christmas tree is decorated with 3,000 ornaments made by schoolchildren<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"751\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/dc_tree_07-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14282\" title=\"Dc_tree_07\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/dc_tree_07-rotated.jpg 751w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/dc_tree_07-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moscow. The Orthodox Christmas is celebrated January 7th<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/moscow_tree_07_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14281\" title=\"Moscow_tree_07_2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/moscow_tree_07_2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/moscow_tree_07_2-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vatican, in St. Peter&#8217;s Square<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/vatican_tree_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14280\" title=\"Vatican_tree_07\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/vatican_tree_07.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/vatican_tree_07-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some views of Christmas trees world-wide. Thank you Bernadette for sending me these. Rockefeller Center in NY city &#8211; Trafalgar Square. The tree is a gift from Norway &#8211; they&#8217;ve been sending a Christmas tree as a gift since 1947 as a token of thanks for Britain&#8217;s aid in World War II In Tokyo And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14287,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions\/14287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}