{"id":6890,"date":"2016-12-02T11:05:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=6890"},"modified":"2019-07-17T17:20:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:20:04","slug":"christmas-time-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/12\/02\/christmas-time-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas time in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Christmas time again! And here in the UK Christmas basically begins the day after Halloween because there is no Thanksgiving! While I did miss Thanksgiving, I do like how Christmas is basically two months here instead of one. I even got a little tree for our flat! There are decorations all over the city. Lights everywhere, I mean everywhere. Outside every tube station and especially in the Piccadilly Circus area (because it&#8217;s a huge outdoor area to shop). It&#8217;s so beautiful especially at night! I live close to the Westfield Mall (which is the one of the biggest malls in Europe) and there is a skating rink INSIDE the mall&#8230;that&#8217;s right inside! London really goes all out during the Christmas season. Last week I even went to the Winter Wonderland Christmas Markets\/Festival. It somewhat mimics the Christmas markets in Germany and France and the European countries. Something else I love about being in London this time of year: the weather! Being from Florida I&#8217;ve never experienced a cold Christmas time. It&#8217;s normally still stifling hot at this time of year. It&#8217;s been in the 40&#8217;s and 30&#8217;s here and I&#8217;m loving it! makes it seem more festive. Feels more like a &#8220;white christmas&#8221;, which I dream about having one day. Also love visiting Harrods this time of year. It&#8217;s the mecca of Christmas gifts. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_7847-240x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15699 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_7847-240x300-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Christmas time again! And here in the UK Christmas basically begins the day after Halloween because there is no Thanksgiving! While I did miss Thanksgiving, I do like how Christmas is basically two months here instead of one. I even got a little tree for our flat! There are decorations all over the city&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15700,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890\/revisions\/15700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}