{"id":4757,"date":"2003-12-24T10:50:33","date_gmt":"2003-12-24T09:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4757"},"modified":"2003-12-24T10:50:33","modified_gmt":"2003-12-24T09:50:33","slug":"seasons-bleatings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2003\/12\/24\/seasons-bleatings\/","title":{"rendered":"Season&#8217;s bleatings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve nearly finished wrapping the gifts &#8211; just the last few tags to write, then I have to bag everything up and decide which gifts Hels will have to wait until Boxing Day for (so she has some to open when we are at my parent&#8217;s house).<br \/>\nThen I&#8217;ll quickly tidy the flat, sort out a bit of laundry, deliver a couple of Christmas cards and then drive off to Tunbridge Wells for the start of the food and drink!<\/p>\n<p>This will be the last update until after Christmas. Remember to keep an eye out for progress of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/3344693.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">Beagle 2<\/a>. Aside from that, remember the true meaning of Christmas &#8211; a distorted winter solstice festival that was hijacked by Christianity in an attempt to win over pagan tribespeople in Europe, that is now the preserve of business and corporate policy. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>May all your mince pies be well filled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve nearly finished wrapping the gifts &#8211; just the last few tags to write, then I have to bag everything up and decide which gifts Hels will have to wait until Boxing Day for (so she has some to open when we are at my parent&#8217;s house). Then I&#8217;ll quickly tidy the flat, sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}