{"id":54,"date":"2011-11-29T22:25:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T22:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fifeanddrumpress.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2018-04-16T13:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T18:22:38","slug":"the-first-lady-receives-the-2011-white-house-christmas-tree-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/the-first-lady-receives-the-2011-white-house-christmas-tree-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Lady Receives the 2011 White House Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Sue and Tom Schroeder, as they presented First Lady Michelle Obama with this year\u2019s official White House Christmas tree. The Schroeders earned this honor by winning the National Christmas Tree Association&#8217;s (NCTA) national Christmas Tree contest held in August 2011 and becoming Grand Champion. Members of the National Christmas Tree Association have presented the official White House Christmas Tree for display in the Blue Room since 1966, during the tenure of First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson. To see what makes a White House Christmas tree (like having a stately color and shape and holding between 4,500-8,000 lights) see the mini-feature on page 52 of <a title=\"Christmas at the White House\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christmasatthewhitehouse.com\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas at the White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pNJJTC0_rEU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2011\/11\/25\/white-house-christmas-tree-arrives\" target=\"_blank\">Watch the video of this year&#8217;s presentation on The White House Blog<\/a> \u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For more information on the National Christmas Tree Association, please visit<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christmastree.org\/whitehouse.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.christmastree.org\/whitehouse.cfm<\/a> \u00bb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"Blue Room Tree Moving\" src=\"http:\/\/fifeanddrumpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2003.BlueRoomTree.Moving.P36103-13a_WM.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Room Tree Moving\" width=\"370\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2003.BlueRoomTree.Moving.P36103-13a_WM.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/2003.BlueRoomTree.Moving.P36103-13a_WM-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 10px;\" title=\"White House Christmas Tree 1986\" src=\"http:\/\/fifeanddrumpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PastedGraphic-1_WM.jpg\" alt=\"White House Christmas Tree 1986\" width=\"371\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PastedGraphic-1_WM.jpg 530w, https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/PastedGraphic-1_WM-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"White House Christmas Tree 2007\" src=\"http:\/\/fifeanddrumpress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P112607CG-0032_WM.jpg\" alt=\"White House Christmas Tree 2007\" width=\"370\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P112607CG-0032_WM.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P112607CG-0032_WM-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Sue and Tom Schroeder, as they presented First Lady Michelle Obama with this year\u2019s official White House Christmas tree. The Schroeders earned this honor by winning the National Christmas Tree Association&#8217;s (NCTA) national Christmas Tree contest held in August 2011 and becoming Grand Champion. Members of the National Christmas Tree Association have presented&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/the-first-lady-receives-the-2011-white-house-christmas-tree-4\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-white-house-christmas-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}