{"id":40817,"date":"2016-11-30T11:20:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T16:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/the-hard-working-italian-origins-of-the-rockefeller-center-christmas-tree\/"},"modified":"2021-01-02T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T17:21:00","slug":"the-hard-working-italian-origins-of-the-rockefeller-center-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=40817","title":{"rendered":"The Hard-Working Italian Origins of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TONIGHT! Tree Lighting At 30 Rockefeller Plaza + Some Surprises<\/p>\n<p>From 8 &#8211; 9 tonight, NBC carries the holiday tradition nation wide, live from Rockefeller Plaza&#8230;well&#8230;almost live. I have been told that Dolly Parton&#8217;s performance was done months ago, but great care was taken to make it a seamless fit into tonight&#8217;s show, so keep a sharp eye out.<\/p>\n<p>As for the first ever 30 Rock Christmas tree&#8230;we can thank Cesidio Perruzza, an Italian excavation worker who helped dig the foundation in 1931. Merry Christmas! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/02\/nyregion\/the-hard-working-italian-origins-of-the-rockefeller-center-christmas-tree.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&amp;smid=nytcore-iphone-share&amp;_r=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/02\/nyregion\/the-hard-working-italian-origins-of-the-rockefeller-center-christmas-tree.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&amp;smid=nytcore-iphone-share&amp;_r=2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/02\/nyregion\/the-hard-working-italian-origins-of-the-rockefeller-center-christmas-tree.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&amp;smid=nytcore-iphone-share&amp;_r=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Hard-Working Italian Origins of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/the-hard-working-italian-origins-of-the-rockefeller-center-christmas-tree.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly lost to history are the tree\u2019s origins with men who worked in construction, most of them Italian immigrants, who were glad for a job during the Depression.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/1150807461623468\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TONIGHT! Tree Lighting At 30 Rockefeller Plaza + Some Surprises From 8 &#8211; 9 tonight, NBC carries the holiday tradition nation wide, live from Rockefeller Plaza&#8230;well&#8230;almost live. I have been told that Dolly Parton&#8217;s performance was done months ago, but great care was taken to make it a seamless fit into tonight&#8217;s show, so keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":40764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[782,806],"class_list":["post-40817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-nbc","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57693,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40817\/revisions\/57693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}