{"id":855,"date":"2012-12-27T16:27:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T15:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/?p=855"},"modified":"2018-09-14T17:46:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T16:46:19","slug":"christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/12\/christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my recent near death experience being very close to electrocuting myself, my sister in law (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nicola.jones.56232?group_id=0\" target=\"_blank\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=100001630748543&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22group_id%22%3A0%7D\">Nicola Jones<\/a>) has taken to calling me &#8220;sparky&#8221;. Just to rub it in, she decided that the best way to emphasize what a dead numpty I could have been was to limit my access to electrical tools from now on. Consequently one of my presents from Nic was a toolset I could use without fear of instant death<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/xmas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-857\" title=\"Christmas Celebrations\" src=\"http:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/xmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/xmas.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/xmas-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems that Christmas party hats have changed for me from now on.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side I also had a pair of slippers from her and their primary aim is to make me trip up and kill myself&#8230;.go figure&#8230;. They are about 2 inches longer than my previous Simpsons slippers and they were probably about an inch &nbsp;bigger than my feet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/slippers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-858\" title=\"slippers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/slippers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/slippers.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/slippers-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my recent near death experience being very close to electrocuting myself, my sister in law (Nicola Jones) has taken to calling me &#8220;sparky&#8221;. Just to rub it in, she decided that the best way to emphasize what a dead numpty I could have been was to limit my access to electrical tools from now [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-relaxing","category-the-family","clearfix","post-index"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/xmas.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}