{"id":33844,"date":"2014-11-28T19:21:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T00:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=33844"},"modified":"2014-11-28T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T00:23:00","slug":"christmas-trees-fake-vs-real-whats-your-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/11\/christmas-trees-fake-vs-real-whats-your-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Trees Fake vs Real<br> What\u2019s Your Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33845\" title=\"tree\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/tree.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/>Black Friday is the first big day for Christmas tree sales. It&#8217;s a hot topic this time of year: buying real versus fake trees.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of the fake trees are making a big comeback. Nationwide almost 15 million were sold last year. But the real deal still dominates the great debate.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a certain standard for a perfect Christmas tree.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cIt&#8217;s gotta be full. It&#8217;s gotta be the right height,\u201d said one tree shopper.<\/p>\n<p>The trees take years to grow in specific climates. In Southwest Florida, they&#8217;re shipped in from out of state.<\/p>\n<p>The National Christmas Tree Association says last year 14.7 million fake trees were sold. That&#8217;s 6.5 million more than in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Their more than $1 billion retail value slightly beat out real trees \u2013 only because they tend to cost more than double.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Christmas Tree Association, roughly 33 million real trees were bought in 2013 \u2013 the most sold since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>For many families, the day after Thanksgiving is a Christmas tree tradition. They kick off the holiday season with a reminder of what this time of year is all about.<\/p>\n<p>So what is your choice real or fake?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Friday is the first big day for Christmas tree sales. It&#8217;s a hot topic this time of year: buying real versus fake trees. Fans of the fake trees are&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}