{"id":864,"date":"2016-12-22T22:07:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T22:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcushillier.com\/?p=864"},"modified":"2016-12-22T22:07:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T22:07:56","slug":"merry-christmas-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcushillier.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/22\/merry-christmas-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas, Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-861\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marcushillier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161222_xmas-tree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marcushillier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161222_xmas-tree-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"Marcus Hillier Christmas\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-861\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcus Hillier Christmas &#8211; Click to Zoom (Rather special decorations !! \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nLife is full of ups and downs, but with the preparation for Christmas, the days of Christmas are usually more up than down&#8230;for most.  For those people lucky enough to have life as they want it, I would like to gift to you this lovely song, and perhaps whilst listening to it think of those less fortunate than yourselves, either without homes or unable to be with loved ones, so that the kindness of the Christmas spirit lasts within you hopefully all year around, and not just for a small part of the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, we are all loved much more than we think we are.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Batman Begins- you havent gave up on me yet...Nevah!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a_rXTFggHkw?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><\/div>\n<p>And so, the Christmas song &#8211; enjoy !<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shakin&#039; Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone (Official Video) [Directors Cut]\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZeyHl1tQeaQ?start=51&#038;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><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is full of ups and downs, but with the preparation for Christmas, the days of Christmas are usually more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8,15],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marcus-hillier","tag-christmas","tag-marcus-hillier"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcushillier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcushillier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcushillier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcushillier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcushillier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcushillier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcushillier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcushillier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcushillier.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}