{"id":32772,"date":"2016-12-18T00:47:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T08:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/iraqi-businessman-erects-tallest-christmas-tree-in-baghdad"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:57:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:57:25","slug":"iraqi-businessman-erects-tallest-christmas-tree-in-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/iraqi-businessman-erects-tallest-christmas-tree-in-baghdad","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi businessman erects tallest Christmas tree in Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iraqi-businessman-erects-tallest-christmas-tree-in-baghdad.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sorry this story moves me.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A Muslim businessman has erected the tallest Christmas tree in Baghdad as a show of solidarity with Christians during the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>Yassir Saad told The Associated Press on Thursday that the initiative aims at \u201cjoining our Christian brothers in their holiday celebrations and helping Iraqis forget their anguish, especially the war in Mosul,\u201d where Iraqi forces are battling the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n<p>The 85-foot-tall (26-meter) artificial tree, with a diameter of 33 feet (10 meters), has been erected in the center of an amusement park in the Iraqi capital. Saad says the initiative cost around $24,000.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/12\/18\/iraqi-businessman-erects-tallest-christmas-tree-baghdad\/\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/12\/18\/iraqi-businessman...e-baghdad\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry this story moves me. A Muslim businessman has erected the tallest Christmas tree in Baghdad as a show of solidarity with Christians during the holiday season. Yassir Saad told The Associated Press on Thursday that the initiative aims at \u201cjoining our Christian brothers in their holiday celebrations and helping Iraqis forget their anguish, especially [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65561,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32772\/revisions\/65561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}