{"id":9840,"date":"2025-12-18T14:23:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T13:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/?p=9840"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:11:01","slug":"votre-sapin-de-noel-nest-peut-etre-pas-un-sapin-voici-pourquoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/votre-sapin-de-noel-nest-peut-etre-pas-un-sapin-voici-pourquoi\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Christmas \u00abtree\u00bb may not be a tree at all, and here's why"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9840\" class=\"elementor elementor-9840\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2e15e71 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2e15e71\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ca94f6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5ca94f6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2530920 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2530920\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong><strong>The origins of the Christmas tree \ud83c\udf84<\/strong><\/p><p>Every year in December, Christmas trees reappear in public spaces, richly decorated and illuminated, but also in many French homes, where their lowest branches are waiting to shelter presents. Associated with the Christian feast of the Nativity, this tradition, which is deeply rooted in Europe, has no religious origin. What's even more surprising is that the Christmas \u00abtree\u00bb... is rarely a real tree!<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/guillaume-decocq-1318403\" rel=\"author noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"fn author-name\">Guillaume Decocq <\/span><\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/thierry-gauquelin-415523\" rel=\"author noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"fn author-name\">Thierry Gauquelin<\/span><\/a><span class=\"fn author-name\"> have looked into these paradoxes and helped us to identify the different types of tree used on 24 December.<\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/votre-sapin-de-noel-nest-peut-etre-pas-un-sapin-voici-pourquoi-271687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\ud83d\udc49 An article to discover in THE CONVERSATION! <\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e1cd5b9 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e1cd5b9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8ee220b elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8ee220b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/theconversation.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-9841\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/theconversation.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/theconversation-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/theconversation-768x417.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/theconversation-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Aux origines du sapin de No\u00ebl \ud83c\udf84 Chaque ann\u00e9e, au mois de d\u00e9cembre, les \u00ab sapins \u00bb de No\u00ebl r\u00e9apparaissent dans l\u2019espace public, richement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":9868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publication"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9840"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9869,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions\/9869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imbe.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}