{"id":645836,"date":"2025-12-21T07:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645836\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T07:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:53:11","slug":"the-joy-of-spending-christmas-day-in-deserted-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645836\/","title":{"rendered":"The joy of spending Christmas Day in deserted London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, in the run-up to Christmas, I visited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York<\/a> in December. I wanted to know if I wanted to be *somewhere else* during the festive time. I saw the lights, shopped like my credit card would never get declined, wore glitzy outfits to company Christmas parties, listened to carols in St Patrick\u2019s Cathedral and skated round Central Park, absorbing every glittering bauble Manhattan could throw at me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few years ago, in the run-up to Christmas, I visited New York in December. I wanted to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,35745,198154,393,390,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-645836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-christmas","10":"tag-christmas-eve","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-family","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115756481616676749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645836","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=645836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}