{"id":8276,"date":"2010-12-03T00:30:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T05:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8276"},"modified":"2010-12-05T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T05:46:08","slug":"annual-tradition-military-holiday-tree-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/03\/annual-tradition-military-holiday-tree-lighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Tradition: Military &#8220;Holiday&#8221; Tree Lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Corps Base Quantico recently announced it will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quantico.usmc.mil\/Sentry\/storyview.aspx?SID=4715\">lighting the base &#8220;holiday tree&#8221;<\/a> next week.<\/p>\n<p>No word yet on whether they will also have a &#8220;holiday candelabrum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/military-walks-careful-line-in-holiday-celebrations\/\">previously noted<\/a>, there is no military policy on public holiday celebrations on military facilities, though they are fairly common.\u00a0 While some have generic &#8220;holiday&#8221; events, other bases have not obscured the celebratory purposes, including Scott AFB, Illinois, <a href=\"http:\/\/csmng.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/01\/pete-chapel-lights-up-with-holiday-events\/\">Peterson AFB, CO<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/secureanr.mediaspanonline.com\/nellisafb\/living\/Community-Briefs-November-19--2010\">Nellis AFB in Nevada<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The traditional Nellis AFB Christmas Tree and Menorah Lighting ceremony will be Dec. 3, 5:30 p.m., at the Chapel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrasso.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.PressReleases&amp;ContentRecord_id=5AEB462A-AD8F-170B-27FC-676B0B5EA4D6\">Capitol Christmas tree<\/a> also remains traditionally named.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, the Menorah lighting will actually be late.\u00a0 While many people think Hanukkah and Christmas coincide, the Jewish celebration actually started on December 1st this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marine Corps Base Quantico recently announced it will be lighting the base &#8220;holiday tree&#8221; next week. No word yet on whether they will also have a &#8220;holiday candelabrum.&#8221; As previously noted, there is no military policy on public holiday celebrations on military facilities, though they are fairly common.\u00a0 While some have generic &#8220;holiday&#8221; events, other bases have not obscured the [&#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":[1192,108,1194,1184,1193,2,1197,1199,17,885,10,171,1198,40],"class_list":["post-8276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-capitol","tag-christmas","tag-hanukkah","tag-holiday-tree","tag-menorah","tag-military","tag-nellis-afb","tag-peterson-afb","tag-religious-expression","tag-quantico","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-scott-afb","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276","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=8276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}