{"id":38795179,"date":"2005-12-25T11:18:48","date_gmt":"2005-12-25T11:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2005\/12\/return-of-the-c.html"},"modified":"2013-04-09T00:57:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T00:57:48","slug":"200512return-of-the-c-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2005\/12\/25\/200512return-of-the-c-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Capitol Tree Cam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/casey.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/the_year_withou.html\">the demise of the U.S. Capitol Treecam<\/a>.  It was a sad event for me to see the Treecam not come back for Christmas 2004, as it was a tradition that I was personally involved in starting.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s good news this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/demcenter.senate.gov\/treecam\/\">the Treecam is back<\/a>.  The picture isn&#8217;t so great.  It&#8217;s too far back and very unclear.  You can see reflections from within the Senate Chaplain&#8217;s office on the glass (that always has interesting possibilities).  Still, I&#8217;m glad to see it back.  Obviously, I wasn&#8217;t the only one who missed it.  And someone with enough authority told someone else, &#8220;Bring back the Treecam!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And just so I&#8217;m clear about my position on this vital Washington issue.  Compared to the Capitol Tree, the White House Tree just doesn&#8217;t measure up.  It looks like something done by an interior designer.  The Capitol Tree is bigger, and looks like it belongs in a family room, a very large family room.  And I&#8217;m glad it is once again being called what it is, a Christmas Tree.<\/p>\n<p><b>for further reading:<\/b>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/30\/AR2005113002169.html\">Three Trees, but Only One Star?<\/a><br \/>The Washington Post, 11\/30\/05<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I wrote about the demise of the U.S. Capitol Treecam. It was a sad event for me to see the Treecam not come back for Christmas 2004, as it was a tradition that I was personally involved in starting. But there&#8217;s good news this year, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38795179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMoH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38795179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354480,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795179\/revisions\/173354480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38795179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38795179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38795179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}