{"id":1203,"date":"2007-11-29T09:10:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T09:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2007-11-29T09:10:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T09:10:57","slug":"behold_the_rockefeller_center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/29\/behold_the_rockefeller_center\/","title":{"rendered":"Behold, the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.familygreenberg.com\/photos_rock_center_tree.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, 2007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/rock_center_tree.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, kids, if you&#8217;ve been looking for a definite sign that the Christmas season is upon us, the picture above is probably it. That&#8217;s the giant tree in New York&#8217;s Rockefeller Center, which was lighted last night in a televised ceremony that I &#8212; grinchy-grinch scroogemeister that I am &#8212; did not see. Fortunately, however, our special Manhattan-area correspondent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familygreenberg.com\/blog.htm\">Brian Greenberg<\/a> was on hand to document the whole thing. Click the photo above to see his complete Rock Center Christmas Tree photoblog, or follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familygreenberg.com\/photos_rock_center_tree.htm\">this link here<\/a>. He&#8217;s got some really cool shots of the behind-the-scenes preparations (which I guess aren&#8217;t really very &#8220;behind the scenes,&#8221; since anyone walking down the street could see them, but they&#8217;re nevertheless things a lot of people wouldn&#8217;t ever see). He also provides some amusing commentary that&#8217;s worth reading, so be sure to take a minute or two to savor the text instead of just flicking through the pics. (I loved the story about Josh Groban. See, that&#8217;s the difference between New York and Salt Lake; here, people are too polite to tell an opera singer who <i>sucks<\/i> to pipe down, let alone somebody who can really sing!)<\/p>\n<p>Be warned that Brian&#8217;s photoblog doesn&#8217;t seem to like Firefox, so you&#8217;ll have to use *shudder* Internet Explorer. But that&#8217;s alright&#8230; there are compensations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, kids, if you&#8217;ve been looking for a definite sign that the Christmas season is upon us, the picture above is probably it. That&#8217;s the giant tree in New York&#8217;s Rockefeller Center, which was lighted last night in a televised ceremony that I &#8212; grinchy-grinch scroogemeister that I am &#8212; did not see. Fortunately, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}