{"id":25002,"date":"2025-12-16T10:07:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=25002"},"modified":"2025-12-16T10:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:07:21","slug":"baylors-beautiful-campus-shines-bright-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2025\/12\/baylors-beautiful-campus-shines-bright-at-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor&#8217;s beautiful campus shines bright at Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25003\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hurd-tree-dec25.jpg\" alt=\"The Christmas tree in the Hurd Welcome Center reflected in a column\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hurd-tree-dec25.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hurd-tree-dec25-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hurd-tree-dec25-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hurd-tree-dec25-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Baylor&#8217;s campus is always beautiful &#8212; but it shines brightest at Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>With Christmas trees and decor in practically every building &#8212; and inbetween as well, highlighted by the trees on Fountain Mall and Founders Mall &#8212; Baylor&#8217;s campus in December is a true winter wonderland of Christmas beauty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/shorts\/j4FIKeBIgU8\">Here&#8217;s a look<\/a> at just some of the trees lighting up Baylor&#8217;s campus this year:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christmas Trees Shine on the Baylor University Campus\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j4FIKeBIgU8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no surprise Baylor was named this year among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegeconsensus.com\/features\/christmas-college-campuses\/\">the top 10 colleges with &#8220;extraordinary Christmas spirit.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baylor&#8217;s campus is always beautiful &#8212; but it shines brightest at Christmas. With Christmas trees and decor in practically every building &#8212; and inbetween as well, highlighted by the trees on Fountain Mall and Founders Mall &#8212; Baylor&#8217;s campus in December is a true winter wonderland of Christmas beauty. Here&#8217;s a look at just some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}