{"id":601847,"date":"2025-11-29T18:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T18:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/601847\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T18:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T18:54:15","slug":"bristol-builder-switches-on-235000-christmas-lights-at-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/601847\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol builder switches on 235,000 Christmas lights at his home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A builder has completed work on a Christmas display at his home \u2013 made up of 235,000 lights.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richard Iles, 37, created the display at his house in Winterbourne Down, near Bristol, with his &#8220;incredible father-in-law&#8221; \u2013 who he said worked &#8220;tirelessly&#8221; with him in the cold and rain to get the job done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It includes giant reindeer on his roof, huge glittering snowflakes and a Santa figure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The display is raising money for the Taxi Charity for Military Veterans, which supports disabled former servicemen and women by providing trips and specialist equipment. Mr Iles said supporting the charity &#8220;means a great deal&#8221; to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A builder has completed work on a Christmas display at his home \u2013 made up of 235,000 lights.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-601847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115634508083138838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}