{"id":6065,"date":"2014-11-25T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/empire-state-plaza-christmas-tree-donated-by-professor-and-family\/"},"modified":"2014-11-25T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T18:00:26","slug":"empire-state-plaza-christmas-tree-donated-by-professor-and-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/empire-state-plaza-christmas-tree-donated-by-professor-and-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire State Plaza Christmas tree donated by professor and family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>David Van Aken, assistant professor in the\u00a0History, Philosophy, and Social Sciences department, and his family recently donated a 40-foot blue spruce from in front of their Schenectady home to New York State to serve as its 2014 Christmas tree on the Empire State Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>After David&#8217;s wife, Kathy, sent pictures of the tree to the NYS State Office of General Services, an OGS representative visited their home and selected the tree for placement on the plaza.<\/p>\n<p>It was a bittersweet day for the family on Nov. 12 when a crew came to cut down the tree, an event that attracted local media coverage:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Gazette\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygazette.com\/news\/2014\/nov\/13\/1113tree\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Gazette<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Times Union\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Schenectady-family-donating-tree-for-Plaza-5887403.php\" target=\"_blank\">Times Union<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Present_Tree_in_the_news.pptx\">Van Aken Family Photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All are welcome to attend the <a title=\"tree lighting festivities\" href=\"http:\/\/www.albany.com\/event\/empire-state-plaza-holiday-tree-lighting-29276\/\" target=\"_blank\">tree lighting festivities<\/a> on Sunday, Dec. 7 at the Empire State Plaza. The activity-packed day gets underway at 1 p.m. and culminates with the tree lighting at 5:15 p.m., followed by fireworks!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:00:26 +0000 by\u00a0d.vanaken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; David Van Aken, assistant professor in the\u00a0History, Philosophy, and Social Sciences department, and his family recently donated a 40-foot&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}