{"id":656,"date":"2009-12-17T10:56:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T09:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2009-12-17T10:56:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T09:56:26","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/12\/17\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maybe you are my friend, or maybe we&#8217;ve never met before.<br \/>\nMaybe we speak to each other daily, or maybe we&#8217;ve never so much as passed on the street.<br \/>\nMaybe I know you virtually in my on-line world of Twitter, of flickr, of moblog\u00c2\u00a0 or facebook.<br \/>\nMaybe I know you in the real world and every so often we&#8217;ll see each other in the pub or you come to my house and we laugh and joke the night away&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;but but however we may, or may not, know each other friend, family, acquaintance or stranger may I wish you the best for this festive season and a very prosperous new year&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"...after. by Steph Jennings, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/essitam\/4156726612\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2719\/4156726612_544fbedb36_b.jpg?resize=600%2C385\" alt=\"...after.\" width=\"600\" height=\"385\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Merry Christmas.<br \/>\nSteph<br \/>\nxxx<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you are my friend, or maybe we&#8217;ve never met before. Maybe we speak to each other daily, or maybe we&#8217;ve never so much as passed on the street. Maybe I know you virtually in my on-line world of Twitter, of flickr, of moblog\u00c2\u00a0 or facebook. Maybe I know you in the real world and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/12\/17\/merry-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merry Christmas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[63,64,95,1],"tags":[170,169,557,558,171],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-friends","category-health","category-wbiagw","tag-best-wishes","tag-christmas","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-message"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-aA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":97,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/28\/will-and-grace\/","url_meta":{"origin":656,"position":0},"title":"Will and Grace&#8230;.","date":"December 28, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"...that was my last night, I was Grace and my friend John was Will (and yes that means exactly what you think it does) AND what a bloody good night we had.John lives in London so I only get to see him on average twice a year when we both\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;WBIAGW&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":95,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/23\/exciting-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":656,"position":1},"title":"EXCITING NEWS!!!!","date":"December 23, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The bestest shop in the world which will will be the coolest shop in the world when its all finished with a funky coffee shop is GOING TO SELL MY PHOTOS FOR ME!!! 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