{"id":245546,"date":"2025-12-22T08:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/245546\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:21:11","slug":"michael-houghton-seven-priceless-festive-family-activities-that-cost-almost-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/245546\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Houghton: Seven priceless festive family activities that cost almost nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"You don't need to pay through the nose to create lasting festive memories. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/36a84a3d-9add-4663-a78a-1b6ded039770.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">You don&#8217;t need to pay through the nose to create lasting festive memories. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Christmas period is that one time of year when you can finally take your foot off the break and enjoy a few guilt-free days off, not worrying about the growing inbox waiting for you because everyone else is off too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But with the kids at home, it can also be an expensive time to keep everyone entertained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t need to pay through the nose to create lasting festive memories. Photo: Getty The Christmas period&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,16838,13,14,6,11,12,19267,15,16,2108,84521,5790,5,30168,7,8,128634,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-245546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-christmas","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-lidl","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-money-experts","20":"tag-new-year","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-the-late-late-show","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories","26":"tag-walks-in-ireland","27":"tag-world","28":"tag-world-news","29":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115762252276399615","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}