{"id":1013,"date":"2014-12-24T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2015-01-13T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T15:03:56","slug":"1013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"Christmas message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday 24<sup>th<\/sup> December 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CHRISTMAS MESSAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Putting aside the constant re-loop of seventies and eighties Christmas songs in the supermarkets and shops, I think most people would agree that Christmas is a really nice period of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The carols, the lights, presents under the tree, the excitement in kids\u2019 faces, and of course, spending some quality time with the family, all make for an enjoyable experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Needless to say, not everyone will be able to sit back and relax for the holidays. As I often do at this time of year, I would like to pay tribute to all those people who are working through the holiday period and who help to make Inverclyde the great community that it is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The shop workers serving queues a mile long of people getting the last minute Christmas presents or the best offers on the sales while doing it all with a smile on their face.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Police officers walking the streets on the cold winter nights keeping our communities safe and giving us a friendly nod whenever they pass us by.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nurses and doctors run off their feet tending to patient after patient in wards at the Inverclyde Royal Hospital and doing so with compassion and kindness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ambulance staff attending emergency calls throughout the night encountering some really harrowing situations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And of course, those armed personnel who are away from their loved ones serving overseas, putting themselves in harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I would like to say a big thank you to all these people for their dedication, decency and hard work and I wish them all the best for the New Year when it comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday 24th December 2014 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE Putting aside the constant re-loop of seventies and eighties Christmas songs in the supermarkets and shops, I think most people would agree that Christmas is a really nice period of the year. The carols, the lights, presents under the tree, the excitement in kids\u2019 faces, and of course, spending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holyrood-message"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}