{"id":1585,"date":"2012-12-07T13:01:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T13:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2012-12-07T13:01:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T13:01:31","slug":"christmas-tree-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/christmas-tree-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas tree confession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/christmas-tree-confession\/577911_450908414946791_105220302_n\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1589\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1589\" title=\"577911_450908414946791_105220302_n\" src=\"http:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/577911_450908414946791_105220302_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/577911_450908414946791_105220302_n.jpg 403w, https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/577911_450908414946791_105220302_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/577911_450908414946791_105220302_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a>With IKEA promoting sales of its Christmas trees this weekend, I guess it\u2019s time to fess up to a little festive secret.<\/p>\n<p>Now, some may argue that it\u2019s wrong in so many ways but I just can\u2019t help buying a real Christmas tree that\u2019s guaranteed to bring that unmistakable scent of the season of goodwill straight into the home. What\u2019s worse, I\u2019m fiercely picky about choosing the right one\u2026it has to be not too tall, not too small, fairly bushy and look\u2026well, just perfect (at least in my eyes anyway!).<\/p>\n<p>Last year I left it far too late and ended up forking out for a bedraggled excuse of a tree that wasn\u2019t worth even half of its exorbitant price tag.\u00a0I can assure you that I\u2019ll not be making that mistake again. Christmas tree sellers in West Sussex beware\u2026fussy customer heading your way this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With IKEA promoting sales of its Christmas trees this weekend, I guess it\u2019s time to fess up to a little festive secret. Now, some may argue that it\u2019s wrong in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetmcmeekin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}