{"id":47368,"date":"2016-12-25T11:56:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T11:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=47368"},"modified":"2016-12-25T11:56:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T11:56:20","slug":"worlds-tallest-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/worlds-tallest-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Worlds tallest Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Lanka has unveiled a towering Christmas tree, claiming to have surpassed the world record for the tallest artificial Christmas tree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 73-meter (238-foot) tree, built in capital Colombo, is 18 meters taller than the current record holder, organisers said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47369\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/8147458-3x2-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"Worlds tallest Christmas Tree\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tree&#8217;s steel-and-wire frame is covered with a plastic net decorated with natural pine cones, 600,000 LED bulbs and topped by a 6-meter-tall (20-foot) shining star.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday, organisers said their tree beat the existing Guinness record held by a Chinese firm that put up a 55-meter (180-foot) tree-like tower in the city of Guangzhou last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47370\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/external.jpg\" alt=\"Worlds tallest Christmas Tree\" width=\"650\" height=\"387\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s claim is subject to confirmation from Guinness World Records, which said it has received an application from the organizers and that it is waiting for evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka has unveiled a towering Christmas tree, claiming to have surpassed the world record for the tallest artificial Christmas tree. The 73-meter (238-foot) tree, built in capital Colombo, is 18 meters taller than the current record holder, organisers said. The tree&#8217;s steel-and-wire frame is covered with a plastic net decorated with natural pine cones, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[22950,22954,22952,12084,22947,22949,22955,22953,22956,22951,22957,19919,22948,22958],"class_list":["post-47368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-18-meters-taller","tag-55-meter","tag-6-meter-tall","tag-chinese","tag-christmas-tree","tag-colombo","tag-guangzhou","tag-guinness-record","tag-guinness-world-records","tag-led-bulbs","tag-organizers","tag-sri-lanka","tag-world-record","tag-worlds-tallest-christmas-tree"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1024x1024.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}