{"id":54943,"date":"2015-12-18T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2015\/12\/18\/the-vatican-s-christmas-tree-fills-st-peter-s-square-with-light\/"},"modified":"2015-12-18T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T19:13:00","slug":"the-vatican-s-christmas-tree-fills-st-peter-s-square-with-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2015\/12\/18\/the-vatican-s-christmas-tree-fills-st-peter-s-square-with-light\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vatican's Christmas tree fills St. Peter's Square with light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas has finally really began at the Vatican. This evening, the Vatican's Christmas tree was lit in the center of St. Peter's Square. The light filled the area with a sense of Christmas cheer.<\/p>\n<p>The illumination followed about an hour and a half of speeches and Christmas songs. Local authorities from Bavaria and the Italian region Trento were present.<\/p>\n<p>The tree, more than 75 feet tall with a star on top, arrived about a month ago after being donated by several German towns. Its branches were decorated by children with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The Nativity scene that accompanies the tree is from Trento. The Italian region traditionally donates a Nativity scene to the Vatican every year. It is made up of 24 wooden figures in an area of about 60 feet by 40 feet.<\/p>\n<p>IPC\/ATO<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nSV<br \/>\n-PR<br \/>\nUp:AC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 18, 2015. Colorful lights brightened the German tree and the Nativity scene from Trento, Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":34618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/IYSV1tdrBCM","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/balberoint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}