{"id":277,"date":"2020-12-29T21:12:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T21:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/missouri\/?p=277"},"modified":"2020-12-29T21:12:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T21:12:49","slug":"new-traditions-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/2020\/12\/29\/new-traditions-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"New Traditions in the Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gardens, a Bethesda Senior Living Community in Springfield, Mo., hosted their fourth annual Christmas Tree Decorating Contest this week.<\/p>\n<p>This annual event features a friendly competition among community vendors including pharmacy, home health, hospice, and therapy organizations. In years past, the vendors would decorate the trees personally as residents cheered on. Residents would vote for their favorite festooned tree and a vendor would receive bragging rights for having the best decorated tree until the following holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is gorgeous when they are all done and it\u2019s very fun for the staff and residents to see the different decorating methods,\u201d said Denise Eleiott, controller and celebrity tree decorator at Guardian Pharmacy of Missouri. \u201cOver the years there have been a Hunter\u2019s tree, a Dr. Seuss tree, and a rotating tree just to name a few.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The residents usually watch as the trees are decorated, but this year, due to COVID-19 precautions, a new tradition was born. The vendors were asked to drop off the trees and decorations for the residents to do the decorating themselves. The trees were then labeled with the participating vendor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe residents had so much fun decorating it,\u201d said a community spokesperson about the tree and ornaments donated by Guardian Pharmacy, \u201cThey loved the snowmen and the Santa Clause ornaments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Covid-19 precautions create a budding new holiday season tradition.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_278\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/missouri\/files\/2020\/12\/Guardian-Missouri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-278\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-278\" src=\"http:\/\/guardianpharmacy.net\/missouri\/files\/2020\/12\/Guardian-Missouri-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guardian Pharmacy of Missouri\u2019s beautifully decorated Christmas tree at this year\u2019s tree decorating contest, hosted by The Gardens, a Bethesda Senior Living Community in Springfield, Missouri.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gardens, a Bethesda Senior Living Community in Springfield, Mo., hosted their fourth annual Christmas Tree Decorating Contest this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpautop","category-4","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardianpharmacy.com\/missouri-st-louis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}