{"id":8615,"date":"2013-12-26T08:50:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=8615"},"modified":"2013-12-07T12:09:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T19:09:26","slug":"happy-boxing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=8615","title":{"rendered":"Happy Boxing Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boxing_Day\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Boxing Day<\/strong><\/a> is celebrated in the British Commonwealth as a bank holiday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1457.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8616\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=8616\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1457.jpg?fit=2042%2C1763&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2042,1763\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1386087038&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.28&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1457\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1457.jpg?fit=700%2C604&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8616\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1457-300x259.jpg?resize=300%2C259\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1457.jpg?resize=300%2C259&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1457.jpg?resize=1024%2C884&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1457.jpg?resize=250%2C215&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1457.jpg?resize=900%2C777&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1457.jpg?w=2042&amp;ssl=1 2042w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1457.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It traditionally was the day that the servants got off work and were given Christmas gifts.\u00a0 It is a nice tradition and a reminder that if in the holiday rush you forgot to remember any of your &#8220;service providers&#8221; you still have an opportunity.\u00a0 Some might even call it an obligation.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have full time servants any more.\u00a0 Now we have specialist servants.\u00a0 Like manicurists, hairstylists, trainers, car washes, dog groomers, gardeners, cleaning ladies, plumbers and many more. They are all available to serve us.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t forget your dry cleaner, your kids tutor, your barista, and all of the cooks and waiters at the restaurants you frequent.\u00a0 Treat them well all the time but especially on Boxing Day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing Day is celebrated in the British Commonwealth as a bank holiday. It traditionally was the day that the servants got off work and were given Christmas gifts.\u00a0 It is a nice tradition and a reminder that if in the holiday rush you forgot to remember any of your &#8220;service providers&#8221; you still have an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-2eX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8617,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions\/8617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}