{"id":885211,"date":"2026-01-15T08:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/did-you-buy-a-real-christmas-tree-heres-how-to-make-it-last-past-dec-25\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:22:20","slug":"did-you-buy-a-real-christmas-tree-heres-how-to-make-it-last-past-dec-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/did-you-buy-a-real-christmas-tree-heres-how-to-make-it-last-past-dec-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you buy a real Christmas tree? Here&#8217;s how to make it last past Dec. 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I really enjoy your column and love the fact that we can read it year-round. I have a question about fresh Christmas trees. My husband and I have decided that we will no longer be using an artificial tree and are going back to our childhood and the memories of a real tree&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/edmontonjournal.com\/life\/keep-real-christmas-tree-fresh\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Gerald Filipski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I really enjoy your column and love the fact that we can read it year-round. I have a question about fresh Christmas trees. My husband and I have decided that we will no longer be using an artificial tree and are going back to our childhood and the memories of a real tree&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":885212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[555,211,192],"tags":[9835,5521],"class_list":{"0":"post-885211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-christmas","8":"category-heres","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-christmas","11":"tag-heres"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}