{"id":6851,"date":"2023-12-04T09:40:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T09:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/?p=6851"},"modified":"2023-12-04T09:48:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T09:48:07","slug":"christmas-cards-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/uncategorized\/christmas-cards-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Cards (again!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:28% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"409\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Robin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6852 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Robin.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Robin-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Have you got some nice Christmas markets in your area? I helped out at our local one in Niedernhausen yesterday and had a lot of fun selling and of course drinking mulled wine \ud83d\ude0a. I just love this time of year in Germany and am happy that I infected my \u201cboys\u201d at an early age. We have had a lot of fun tree this past week putting up and decorating the house with lights and the all important tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course I have been writing my Christmas cards which you can read all about in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/uncategorized\/christmas-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christmas blog<\/a> from last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then, I have read that the first Christmas card was actually sent out by Michael Maier, a German physicist, who sent the card to James 1 of England in 1611. I have also often wondered why robins (Rotkehlchen) feature on a lot of Christmas cards and have now found out that back in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, British postmen used to wear bright red uniforms and soon became known as \u2018robins\u2019. They therefore became a popular motif, commonly depicted as sitting on top of postboxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a couple more nice texts for English business cards:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Season\u2019s greetings! May your business be merry and bright throughout the festive season and beyond.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sending holiday cheer to your business \u2013 may the coming year be filled with growth, accomplishments, and joy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you got some nice Christmas markets in your area? I helped out at our local one in Niedernhausen yesterday and had a lot of fun selling and of course drinking mulled wine \ud83d\ude0a.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6851"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6857,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions\/6857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}