{"id":12563,"date":"2022-11-18T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T20:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=12563"},"modified":"2022-11-18T14:56:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T22:56:13","slug":"community-christmas-tree-arrives-nov-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/community-christmas-tree-arrives-nov-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 Tuesday, 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 Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is anticipated the tree will arrive between 10:00 am and 12:00 pm on Tuesday. Its 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 30 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 dependent on weather and equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The official tree lighting ceremony will be Sunday, December 4<sup>th<\/sup>, at the conclusion of Downtown Yakima&#8217;s annual Holiday Lighted Parade.<\/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 id=\"wp-block-file--media-6b7cc69a-3161-4e8f-8a0f-317597b1c4de\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Christmas-Tree-Arrives-Nov.-22-News-Release.pdf\">Christmas-Tree-Arrives-Nov.-22-News-Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Christmas-Tree-Arrives-Nov.-22-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-6b7cc69a-3161-4e8f-8a0f-317597b1c4de\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparations are under way for the arrival of Yakima&#8217;s Community Christmas Tree on Tuesday, 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-12563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563","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=12563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12569,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563\/revisions\/12569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}