{"id":5013,"date":"2017-12-09T09:50:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=5013"},"modified":"2025-07-09T13:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:33:22","slug":"its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2017\/12\/09\/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Beginning to Look a  Lot Like Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5014\" style=\"width: 3034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/12\/3rd-floor-of-Preble-Hall-is-celebrating-the-holidays-with-their-own-tree-e1512852348729.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5014\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5014\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2017\/12\/3rd-floor-of-Preble-Hall-is-celebrating-the-holidays-with-their-own-tree-e1512852348729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/12\/3rd-floor-of-Preble-Hall-is-celebrating-the-holidays-with-their-own-tree-e1512852348729.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/12\/3rd-floor-of-Preble-Hall-is-celebrating-the-holidays-with-their-own-tree-e1512852348729-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/12\/3rd-floor-of-Preble-Hall-is-celebrating-the-holidays-with-their-own-tree-e1512852348729-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2017\/12\/3rd-floor-of-Preble-Hall-is-celebrating-the-holidays-with-their-own-tree-e1512852348729-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3rd floor of Preble Hall is celebrating the holidays with their own tree.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>What is your idea of the perfect Christmas tree? How do you decorate it? Do you have a real or artificial tree? Every family has a tradition during the holidays when it comes to Christmas trees. Many people put lights and ornaments on their Christmas tree. Some UMPI students are even celebrating the holidays by decorating their rooms with lights and small Christmas trees.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>The month of December is a time to make memories with your family and friends by decorating a tree. What tree is the right one, however? Lots of families go for a real tree such as spruce, pine or fir trees and some people use the same artificial tree every year. Families decorate their tree by theme or color scheme. Of course, we can\u2019t forget about the ornaments or the famous star on top of the tree. But which way is the best?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>John DeFelice, professor of history, said, \u201cGrowing up, my family had many different Christmas trees. In the 1960s we had real, fake and even projection trees. I have inherited many ornaments from my childhood and continue to hang them on my own tree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Traditions are passed through generations of families. Many families also might have themed or color patterned trees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>\u201cEvery place my family travels, we get a Christmas ornament for our tree. It\u2019s a great time during the holidays, because we get to see our tree and remember all the places we have gone,\u201d UMPI senior Sara Packard said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>All Christmas trees are decorated differently during the holidays: that is what makes them different. Everyone has a Christmas tradition.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>What\u2019s yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is your idea of the perfect Christmas tree? How do you decorate it? Do you have a real or artificial tree? Every family has a tradition during the holidays when it comes to Christmas trees. Many people put lights and ornaments on their Christmas tree. Some UMPI students are even celebrating the holidays by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8771,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions\/8771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}