{"id":11321,"date":"2021-11-19T09:25:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=11321"},"modified":"2021-11-19T09:29:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:29:28","slug":"community-christmas-tree-arrives-november-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/community-christmas-tree-arrives-november-22nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Christmas Tree Arrives Nov. 22nd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Preparations are under way for the arrival of Yakima&#8217;s Community Christmas Tree on Monday, November 22<sup>nd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Downtown Association of Yakima (DAY) crew in partnership with the City of Yakima Public Works Division and Russell Crane will secure a tree provided by a Yakima area residence, move the tree to Millennium Plaza, and place the tree into the ground on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tree&#8217;s arrival will not impact traffic, though parking spaces adjacent to Millennium Plaza on 3rd Street will be closed to accommodate the installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tree is approximately 40 feet in height prior to grooming and trimming for installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plans for transporting the tree to Downtown Yakima are subject to change and dependent on weather and equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The official tree lighting ceremony will be Sunday, December 5<sup>th<\/sup>, at the conclusion of Downtown Yakima&#8217;s annual Holiday Lighted Parade. The parade starts at 5:00 pm and is scheduled to conclude at 8:00 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volunteers with DAY will hang lights on trees in the Plaza area prior to the parade and lighting ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Community-Christmas-Tree-Arrival-News-Release-2.pdf\">Community-Christmas-Tree-Arrival-News-Release-2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Community-Christmas-Tree-Arrival-News-Release-2.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparations are under way for the arrival of Yakima&#8217;s Community Christmas Tree on Monday, November 22nd. The Downtown Association of Yakima (DAY) crew in partnership with the City of Yakima Public Works Division and Russell Crane will secure a tree provided by a Yakima area residence, move the tree to Millennium Plaza, and place the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11325,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11321\/revisions\/11325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}