{"id":326964,"date":"2025-12-02T23:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326964\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T23:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:52:11","slug":"us-capitol-christmas-tree-is-lit-up-in-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326964\/","title":{"rendered":"US Capitol Christmas tree is lit up in Washington DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The US Capitol Christmas tree, named &#8220;Silver Belle&#8221;, has been lit up during a ceremony on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The 53-foot (16.15 meters) red fir was hand-selected from the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, east of Lake Tahoe. It made a 3,000-mile journey from Nevada to Washington DC in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Speaking at the ceremony, House speaker Mike Johnson said that like the tree&#8217;s thousands of lights, the strength of the US is found &#8220;in the individual&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Capitol Christmas tree, named &#8220;Silver Belle&#8221;, has been lit up during a ceremony on Tuesday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-326964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}