{"id":89497,"date":"2020-04-08T05:34:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T11:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-lights-community-holiday-tree-to-bring-cheer\/"},"modified":"2020-04-08T05:34:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T11:34:15","slug":"durango-lights-community-holiday-tree-to-bring-cheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-lights-community-holiday-tree-to-bring-cheer\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango lights community holiday tree to bring cheer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5a2ec69c-f5cd-4e55-9e98-d7c139a9f8ab&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1065\" alt=\"The holiday tree in Buckley Park was turned on Monday to provide some cheer during the coronavirus outbreak.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The holiday tree in Buckley Park was turned on Monday to provide some cheer during the coronavirus outbreak.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMaybe Santa made a surprise visit to Durango to give us some Christmas cheer in our time of need,\u201d said Tim Walsworth, director of the Durango Business Improvement District, which organizes the holiday tree lighting.<\/p>\n<p>Joking aside, Walsworth said the team at BID decided to turn on the lights, which were still hanging from the holidays. Usually, BID removes the strings of lights around this time of year when it gets warmer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally, now we\u2019d be taking them down, but now we\u2019re not,\u201d he said. \u201cWe turned it on for a little cheer for the town, for anyone who might be out after dark, they\u2019ll see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Across the U.S., as the coronavirus pandemic confines people to their homes and disrupts nearly every facet of daily life, there\u2019s been a growing movement to string up Christmas lights.<\/p>\n<p>Or for certain procrastinators, turn lights back on that were never taken down.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, the hashtags #ChristmasInMarch, #ChristmasLights and #LightsForLife have taken off as a way for people to share photos of homes decorated with holiday cheer.<\/p>\n<p>Even the Hallmark Channel re-aired its Christmas movie marathon a few weekends ago.<\/p>\n<p>Also in an attempt at lightheartedness, residents in Durango and Farmington have placed <a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/320196-farmington-is-going-on-a-bear-hunt\">stuffed bears in their windows<\/a> so families can take walks or drives throughout neighborhoods to find them.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_tagline\">Herald Staff<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>holiday tree in Buckley Park was turned on Monday to provide some cheer during the coronavirus outbreak.Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file \u201cMaybe Santa made a surprise visit to Durango to give us some Christmas cheer in our time of need,\u201d said Tim Walsworth, director of the Durango Business Improvement District, which organizes the holiday tree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1671,685,28,29,4502],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-89497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-business-improvement-district","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-talk-about-town"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89497"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=89497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}