{"id":777,"date":"2004-11-25T19:20:05","date_gmt":"2004-11-25T19:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=777"},"modified":"2004-11-25T19:20:05","modified_gmt":"2004-11-25T19:20:05","slug":"aluminum_christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"Aluminum Christmas Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics7.nytimes.com\/images\/2004\/11\/25\/fashion\/25tree.583.jpg\" TITLE=\"Season's Gleamings\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/11\/25\/garden\/25TREE.html?ex=1259125200&#038;en=6638d43f4c39bca2&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt\">Bradford McKee reminds me<\/a> of a cultural icon from the 1960&#8217;s (I remember these): the aluminum Christmas Tree:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Mr. Shimon and Ms. Lindemann, while teaching photography together at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., have assembled a short history of the aluminum Christmas tree and its Manitowoc roots in a new book, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/NASApp\/store\/Search;jsessionid=CA803BB9E42178611A3109D6482370E4.t8\" TITLE=\"Tattered Cover Link\">Season&#8217;s Gleamings: The Art of the Aluminum Christmas Tree<\/a>&#8221; (Melcher Media), out this month. The book contains their photos of their trees ? twinkling limbs presented with deadpan cheer against mostly brightly colored backgrounds.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bradford McKee reminds me of a cultural icon from the 1960&#8217;s (I remember these): the aluminum Christmas Tree: Mr. Shimon and Ms. Lindemann, while teaching photography together at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., have assembled a short history of the aluminum Christmas tree and its Manitowoc roots in a new book, &#8220;Season&#8217;s Gleamings: The Art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}