{"id":20435,"date":"2012-12-04T02:05:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T05:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=20435"},"modified":"2012-12-04T02:05:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T05:05:45","slug":"us-military-bases-start-raising-holiday-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/04\/us-military-bases-start-raising-holiday-displays\/","title":{"rendered":"US Military Bases Start Raising Holiday Displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a continuation of the annual tradition, US military bases are beginning to erect &#8220;holiday displays&#8221; around the world.\u00a0 Often, though not always, they consist of a Christmas tree (recognizing Christmas, for those who might not get the connection) and possibly a Menorah (for Hanukkah).\u00a0 In some cases, the tree is a &#8220;holiday tree,&#8221; though the Menorah has yet to be dubbed a &#8220;holiday candelabra.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/tree.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/>Iwakuni performed its &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/98627\/holiday-tree-lighting-ceremony-brightens-mcas-iwakuni\">holiday tree lighting<\/a>&#8221; just prior to Thanksgiving, though the article acknowledges it is, in fact,\u00a0a Christmas tree.\u00a0 Many military bases are performing the ceremonies this weekend, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dyess.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123326987\">Dyess AFB<\/a>\u00a0Christmas tree and Menorah, and what a local paper called the <a href=\"http:\/\/fortbragg.patch.com\/articles\/fort-bragg-to-announce-family-of-the-year-at-tree-lighting\">Fort Bragg<\/a> &#8220;holiday tree and Menorah&#8221; lighting, though Fort Bragg announced its annual Christmas tree lighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a continuation of the annual tradition, US military bases are beginning to erect &#8220;holiday displays&#8221; around the world.\u00a0 Often, though not always, they consist of a Christmas tree (recognizing Christmas, for those who might not get the connection) and possibly a Menorah (for Hanukkah).\u00a0 In some cases, the tree is a &#8220;holiday tree,&#8221; though the Menorah has yet to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[38,108,1023,1194,1184,3730,2],"class_list":["post-20435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chapel","tag-christmas","tag-fort-bragg","tag-hanukkah","tag-holiday-tree","tag-iwakuni","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}