{"id":1339,"date":"2011-12-05T07:38:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T07:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:53:02","slug":"outdoor-christmas-decorations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/outdoor-christmas-decorations","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Christmas Decorations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today&#8217;s post is about outdoor Christmas decorations. Over the last 20 years or so, these seem to have taken off in a big way but when I was growing up I wasn&#8217;t conscious of outdoor decorations except for the ones you saw in the city centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A few years ago we lived in a cul-de-sac where the custom was to decorate the front of your home and get together for the big swtich-on. Of the 30 or so houses, only one or two didn&#8217;t take part. I have to confess, our offering was a simple string of lights over the garage to give the illusion that we weren&#8217;t completely bah, humbug! Having moved again since, thankfully there&#8217;s no pressure to keep up the tradition! Perhaps we really are bah, humbug, after all. lol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s post is about outdoor Christmas decorations. Over the last 20 years or so, these seem to have taken off in a big way but when I was growing up I wasn&#8217;t conscious of outdoor decorations except for the ones &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/outdoor-christmas-decorations\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sharing-memories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}