{"id":2966,"date":"2014-12-24T17:38:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T13:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2014-12-24T17:38:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T13:38:44","slug":"on-this-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/on-this-day-6\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1923, President Calvin Coolidge touches a button and lights up the first national Christmas tree to grace the White House grounds in the USA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/d8oerkw6y6ezo.cloudfront.net\/images\/tree-1923.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not only was this the first White House &#8220;community&#8221; Christmas tree, but it was the first to be decorated with electric lights&#8211;a strand of 2,500 red, white and green bulbs. The balsam fir came from Coolidge&#8217;s home state of Vermont and stood 14.6 meters (48 feet) tall. Several musical groups performed at the tree-lighting ceremony, including the Epiphany Church Choir and the U.S. Marine Band.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/whho\/images\/1923CHOIR.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At 17:00 on Christmas Eve<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">,<\/span>\u00a0President Coolidge touched a button at the foot of the tree which lit the ornaments.\u00a0Later that evening, President Coolidge and First Lady Grace were treated to carols sung by members of Washington D.C.&#8217;s First Congregational Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1923, President Calvin Coolidge touches a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[699,1112,982,182,187,166,603,1178,1179,1180],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-america","tag-christmas-tree","tag-december-2014","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-interesting-fact","tag-learn","tag-on-this-day","tag-president-coolidge","tag-washington-dc","tag-white-house","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}