{"id":16566,"date":"2020-11-10T19:32:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T03:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=16566"},"modified":"2020-12-03T21:17:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:17:25","slug":"say-hey-to-santa-at-the-online-53rd-annual-tree-lighting-ceremony-kwou-snippet-bring-the-cocoa-and-computer-for-the-tree-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/say-hey-to-santa-at-the-online-53rd-annual-tree-lighting-ceremony-kwou-snippet-bring-the-cocoa-and-computer-for-the-tree-lighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Say hey to Santa at the online 53rd annual tree lighting ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><em>Enjoy the upcoming holiday tree lighting event online\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<strong>Natalie Dean<\/strong> | Entertainment Editor\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The holiday season and a pandemic don\u2019t make for the most ideal of conditions, but there are still plenty of local holiday events for people to enjoy at home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One staple of the holiday season in Monmouth is the 53rd annual tree lighting ceremony, a live broadcast of the massive Sequoia Tree that sits on the lawn of Campbell Hall. For many students at Western, especially first-years, getting bundled up and braving the cold to see the lights is essentially a rite of passage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, staff and students get to enjoy the comforts of home and spread the holiday spirit since it will be an online event. It will be held on Friday, Nov. 20 from 6 to 7 p.m. and can be found at wou.edu\/livestream, or on wouTV. So get a blanket, cocoa or some apple cider to settle in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Along with the view of the lights on the tree, both of the mayors from Monmouth and Independence \u23e4 along with President Rex Fuller \u23e4 will be reading a winning essay by a local Monmouth elementary school student. Don\u2019t forget to catch a special visit from Santa and Mrs. Clause who will be at the event to supervise and say hello, but it has not been confirmed if they will be riding in on the reindeer pulling the sled.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"4220\" height=\"82\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png 4220w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-300x6.png 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1024x20.png 1024w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-768x15.png 768w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1536x30.png 1536w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-2048x40.png 2048w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1080x21.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4220px) 100vw, 4220px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:ndean17@wou.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ndean17@wou.edu<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy the upcoming holiday tree lighting event online\u00a0<br \/>\nNatalie Dean | Entertainment Editor\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":16555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[307,161,50,306,57,310,309,279,280,293,305],"class_list":["post-16566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-annual-event","tag-entertainment","tag-holiday","tag-holiday-event","tag-holidays","tag-independence","tag-monmouth","tag-natalie","tag-natalie-dean","tag-rex-fuller","tag-tree-lighting"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}