{"id":142201,"date":"2025-12-26T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142201"},"modified":"2025-12-27T08:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T13:06:28","slug":"happy-boxing-day-to-all-blog-readers-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142201","title":{"rendered":"Happy Boxing Day to all Blog Readers!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">26 Dec: The feast of St Stephen, the first Christian martyr remembered for his charity, is also called Boxing Day, from the custom of giving alms or gift boxes to the poor and to workers in thanks. In the \u201cCalendar of Flowers,\u201d purple heather is his dedicated flower. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BoxingDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BoxingDay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6aKf4IcGUA\">pic.twitter.com\/6aKf4IcGUA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; VenetiaJane&#39;s Garden (@VenetiaJane) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VenetiaJane\/status\/2004311795834524127?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 Dec: The feast of St Stephen, the first Christian martyr remembered for his charity, is also called Boxing Day, from the custom of giving alms or gift boxes to the poor and to workers in thanks. In the \u201cCalendar<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142201\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,199,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-england-uk","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142223,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142201\/revisions\/142223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}