{"id":1210,"date":"2010-12-26T04:22:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T09:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2011-01-07T14:36:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T19:36:29","slug":"worlds-most-expensive-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/worlds-most-expensive-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Most Expensive Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To help offset our disappointment of not being with family and friends on Christmas, Megan and I turned to one of Abu Dhabi&#8217;s great attributes:  excess!  And few things in Abu Dhabi scream excess more that Emirates Palace Hotel.  Costing more than $3 billion to construct, it is rumored to have the highest hotel construction costs in history.  So where better to display the most expensively decorated Christmas Tree in history?!<\/p>\n<p>Costing more than $11 million USD, the Christmas tree at the Emirates Palace is massive.  But upon further inspection, the real source of the enormous price tag isn&#8217;t really the tree itself (artificial, btw), but the ornaments.  $1 million here, $500,000 there&#8230;.it adds up quickly.<\/p>\n<p>So without further adieu, here it is&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1210 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/worlds-most-expensive-christmas-tree\/133_3312\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/133_3312-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1214\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1214'>\n\t\t\t\tA close up shot of some expensive decorations\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/worlds-most-expensive-christmas-tree\/133_3313\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/133_3313-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1215\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1215'>\n\t\t\t\tThis &#8220;ornament&#8221; alone is worth over $440,000!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/worlds-most-expensive-christmas-tree\/133_3318\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/133_3318-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1216\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1216'>\n\t\t\t\tJust insane!  Sorry &#8211; no other words to describe an $11million tree!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/worlds-most-expensive-christmas-tree\/133_3320\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/133_3320-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1217\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1217'>\n\t\t\t\tWe knew Abu Dhabi was a city of excess, but wow&#8230;.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dM8jZE76oek?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dM8jZE76oek?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help offset our disappointment of not being with family and friends on Christmas, Megan and I turned to one of Abu Dhabi&#8217;s great attributes: excess! And few things in Abu Dhabi scream excess more that Emirates Palace Hotel. Costing more than $3 billion to construct, it is rumored to have the highest hotel construction&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/worlds-most-expensive-christmas-tree\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[19,22],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture","category-video","tag-christmas","tag-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}