{"id":7313,"date":"2012-12-25T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=7313"},"modified":"2012-12-25T09:02:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T14:02:10","slug":"a-history-of-christmas-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/a-history-of-christmas-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"A History Of Christmas Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/122512_1141_AHistoryOfC1.jpg\" width=\"638\" height=\"462\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In western countries Christmas lights strung up both inside and outside the house are a common sight. Heidi Davis presented a brief history of the lights. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People used to decorate their trees with lit candles. A bucket of water was kept on hand in case the tree ignited.<\/li>\n<li>Electric Christmas tree lights didn&#8217;t gain popularity until 1895 when American President Grover Cleveland displayed the first electronically lit White House Christmas tree.<\/li>\n<li>During World War Two the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2012\/how-much-does-the-rockefeller-center-christmas-tree-cost\/\">Rockefeller Centre <\/a>Christmas lights remained unlit \u2013 in keeping with wartime blackout regulations of the time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the history and present of Christmas tree lights over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gadgets\/news\/a-brief-history-of-christmas-lights?click=pm_news\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gadgets\/news\/a-brief-history-of-christmas-lights?click=pm_news\">Popular Mechanics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In western countries Christmas lights strung up both inside and outside the house are a common sight. Heidi Davis presented a brief history of the lights. Highlights include: People used to decorate their trees with lit candles. A bucket of water was kept on hand in case the tree ignited. Electric Christmas tree lights didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/122512_1141_AHistoryOfC1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7316,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313\/revisions\/7316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}