{"id":103,"date":"2023-12-25T14:37:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T14:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/25\/boxing-week-that-blissful-period-when-nothing-happens-is-the-real-gift-of-christmas-jessica-furseth\/"},"modified":"2023-12-25T14:37:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T14:37:57","slug":"boxing-week-that-blissful-period-when-nothing-happens-is-the-real-gift-of-christmas-jessica-furseth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/25\/boxing-week-that-blissful-period-when-nothing-happens-is-the-real-gift-of-christmas-jessica-furseth\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing week, that blissful period when nothing happens, is the real gift of Christmas | Jessica Furseth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twixmas, Chrimbo limbo or, in Norway, romjul (space Christmas): call it what you will, I\u2019ll be mainly chilling<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it starts the moment you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/dec\/03\/whamageddon-is-this-the-worlds-most-difficult-christmas-game\">hear<\/a> Wham!\u2019s Last Christmas in the shops, or perhaps it\u2019s the day you put up your tree. For me, Christmas starts in earnest on Boxing Day. Specifically, around the time when I\u2019m digging through a fridge stuffed with leftovers to make myself a lunch plate, which I\u2019ll eat in front of the TV \u2013 me under a blanket, the plate balanced on my chest \u2013 with a box of Cadbury\u2019s Roses within easy reach.<\/p>\n<p>This is the true spirit of Christmas: that shapeless week of After Eights, tawny port and old films \u2013 the only time of year when we can legitimately forget what day it is.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/dec\/25\/boxing-week-blissful-christmas-twixmas-norway-eating\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twixmas, Chrimbo limbo or, in Norway, romjul (space Christmas): call it what you will, I\u2019ll be mainly chilling Maybe it starts the moment you hear Wham!\u2019s Last Christmas in the shops, or perhaps it\u2019s the day you put up your tree. For me, Christmas starts in earnest on Boxing Day. Specifically, around the time when &#8230; <a title=\"Boxing week, that blissful period when nothing happens, is the real gift of Christmas | Jessica Furseth\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/25\/boxing-week-that-blissful-period-when-nothing-happens-is-the-real-gift-of-christmas-jessica-furseth\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Boxing week, that blissful period when nothing happens, is the real gift of Christmas | Jessica Furseth\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}