{"id":7769,"date":"2009-12-08T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2010-05-10T00:32:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T08:32:09","slug":"white-housegreen-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/living\/white-housegreen-christmas","title":{"rendered":"White House\/Green Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/package\/article\/0,,20319528_20323931,00.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7771\" src=\"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/whitehouse-xmas.jpg\" alt=\"whitehouse-xmas\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/whitehouse-xmas.jpg 240w, http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/whitehouse-xmas-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Like many families trying to <a title=\"sig9 greener xmas\" href=\"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/living\/lifestyle-news\/tips-to-a-greener-christmas\" target=\"_blank\">cut costs and think green\u00c2\u00a0this Christmas<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0Obamas have\u00c2\u00a0decided to eschew the traditionally opulent\u00c2\u00a0decorations of White Houses past and go for a subtle, stylish look this Christmas season.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of ordering mass quantities of ornaments and trees to deck the White House halls, the First Lady\u00c2\u00a0decided to dig\u00c2\u00a0around the Presidential basement, re-use the 800 or so ornaments from previous administrations, have 60 community groups\u00c2\u00a0bedazzle them with local flavor, and then decorate according to the theme: &#8220;Reflect. Rejoice. Renew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While you may not have 800 ornaments in your basement (at least, we hope you don&#8217;t), this holiday season is the perfect time to take a leaf from the First Family&#8217;s book\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;renew&#8221; and recycle your old decor &#8211; all\u00c2\u00a0in the name of good taste and green living, of course!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"earth911 \" href=\"http:\/\/earth911.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/the-obamas-recycled-holiday-festoons\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> {Earth911.com}<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"people\" href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/package\/article\/0,,20319528_20323931,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read More <\/a>{People}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many families trying to cut costs and think green\u00c2\u00a0this Christmas,\u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0Obamas have\u00c2\u00a0decided to eschew the traditionally opulent\u00c2\u00a0decorations of White Houses past and go for a subtle, stylish look this Christmas season. Instead of ordering mass quantities of ornaments and trees to deck the White House halls, the First Lady\u00c2\u00a0decided to dig\u00c2\u00a0around the Presidential basement, re-use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1016,1843,1842,1116,132,702,1339,1612,1844,759,1610],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11286,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions\/11286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}