{"id":23483,"date":"2019-10-16T01:52:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T00:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=23483"},"modified":"2022-11-28T22:06:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T22:06:58","slug":"it-comes-but-once-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=23483","title":{"rendered":"It Comes But Once A Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 696px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 696\/466;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; float: left; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"Christmas already\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/xmas_baubles.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas already\" width=\"696\" height=\"466\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\">But, by God, it hangs around for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s 16 October. The trees are only just turning yellow. The clocks don\u2019t go back for another few weeks. Bonfire night is still a way off. And I just saw (last night) the first Christmas advert on TV. In the last week, I saw my first Christmas tree in someone\u2019s front room while I was on a lesson. And I&#8217;m pretty damned sure that the lights in someone&#8217;s window and outside their house when I picked my pupil up for her lesson tonight were Christmas lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People are idiots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4532794719633406\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But, by God, it hangs around for a long time. It\u2019s 16 October. The trees are only just turning yellow. The clocks don\u2019t go back for another few weeks. Bonfire night is still a way off. And I just saw (last night) the first Christmas advert on TV. In the last week, I saw my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}