{"id":890,"date":"2008-12-02T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/02\/2008-12-2-quaint-tree-lighting-ceremony-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:20","slug":"2008-12-2-quaint-tree-lighting-ceremony-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/2008-12-2-quaint-tree-lighting-ceremony-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Quaint Tree Lighting Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Come with me to a place that time forgot, before the <a href=\"\/2008\/12\/boom.html\" target=\"_blank\">propane blew up<\/a>. Come to my little burg where townfolk gather in the square&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_491.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_491.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Hey look, isn't that...\" \/><\/a><br \/>&#8230;to await the arrival of Santa and his missus on the back of a fire truck (<i>shouldn&#8217;t that fire truck been waiting over by the splodey fields? &#8211; ed<\/i> That was later. Check your history.).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_492.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_492.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Who's minding the store?\" \/><\/a><br \/>But what we were all waiting for, of course was the lighting of the 80-foot Christmas Tree in the center of town accompanied by clapping and cheers!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_493.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 175px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_493.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tree lit!\" \/><\/a><br \/>Then the power went out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_494.JPG\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_494.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tree not lit.\" \/><\/a><br \/>Not kidding.<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, Come with me to a place that time forgot, before the propane blew up. Come to my little burg where townfolk gather in the square&#8230; &#8230;to await the arrival of Santa and his missus on the back of a fire truck (shouldn&#8217;t that fire truck been waiting over by the splodey fields? &#8211; ed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/2008-12-2-quaint-tree-lighting-ceremony-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quaint Tree Lighting Ceremony&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-idyllwild"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}