{"id":59266,"date":"2025-11-20T15:40:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=59266"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:26:22","slug":"lakelands-munn-park-gets-its-first-large-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/11\/20\/lakelands-munn-park-gets-its-first-large-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland\u2019s Munn Park Gets Its First Large Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!! The Munn Park tree is underway!<br><br>The 34-foot-tall artificial majestic mountain pine was delivered this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Munn Park\u2019s first large Christmas tree, an artificial majestic mountain pine, was delivered this week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tree by the numbers:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"4c617e\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"942\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_0422-e1763658125358.webp?resize=1024%2C942&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59300 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #4c617e; width:564px;height:auto\" 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