{"id":9932,"date":"2020-11-18T14:47:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T22:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=9932"},"modified":"2020-11-18T14:48:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T22:48:19","slug":"community-christmas-tree-arrives-november-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/community-christmas-tree-arrives-november-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Christmas Tree Arrives November 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Preparations are under way for the arrival of Yakima&#8217;s Community Christmas Tree tomorrow, Thursday, November 19<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tree arrival at Millennium Plaza is estimated to be between 11:00 am and 12:00 pm tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Downtown Association of Yakima (DAY) crew, with assistance from the City of Yakima, will secure a tree provided by a Yakima-area residence, move the tree to Millennium Plaza, and secure the tree into the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crews from DAY and the City will practice social-distancing precautions as required due to COVID-19.<\/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>Plans for transporting the tree to Downtown Yakima tomorrow are subject to change dependent on weather and equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volunteers with DAY will be hanging lights on trees in the Plaza area next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Downtown Yakima&#8217;s annual Holiday Lighted Parade is canceled this year due to COVID-19 restrictions on gatherings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DAY is planning a virtual tree-lighting ceremony sometime after Thanksgiving Day.<\/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-1.pdf\">Community-Christmas-Tree-Arrival-News-Release-1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Community-Christmas-Tree-Arrival-News-Release-1.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 tomorrow, Thursday, November 19th. The tree arrival at Millennium Plaza is estimated to be between 11:00 am and 12:00 pm tomorrow. The Downtown Association of Yakima (DAY) crew, with assistance from the City of Yakima, will secure a tree provided by a Yakima-area<\/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-9932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932","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=9932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9936,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9932\/revisions\/9936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}