{"id":10458,"date":"2020-11-27T13:08:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T18:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/?p=10458"},"modified":"2025-06-24T18:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T22:00:01","slug":"associated-press-many-turn-to-real-christmas-trees-as-bright-spot-amid-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/in-the-news\/associated-press-many-turn-to-real-christmas-trees-as-bright-spot-amid-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"<span>Associated Press <\/span>Many turn to real Christmas trees as bright spot amid virus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Ani Sirois, a respiratory nurse, has spent months caring for coronavirus patients at a Portland, Oregon, hospital, and she\u2019s only getting busier as infections \u2014 and hospitalizations \u2014 surge before the holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But on a recent sunny day, COVID-19 seemed far away as she, her husband and their 2-year-old daughter roamed a Christmas tree farm in search of the perfect evergreen for a holiday season unlike any other. The family was tree-shopping nearly a week before Thanksgiving and, for the first time, they were picking their own tree instead of buying a pre-cut one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lifestyle-coronavirus-pandemic-thanksgiving-holidays-oregon-dff472dcee1b479fca9a4237cb0e4c8b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ FULL ARTICLE &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real Christmas tree industry, which has been battling increased interest in artificial trees, is glad to see that more Americans appear to be flocking to fresh-cut evergreens this season, seeking a bright spot amid the virus\u2019s worsening toll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-in-the-news","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dev.realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61925,"href":"https:\/\/dev.realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458\/revisions\/61925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}