{"id":657,"date":"2010-04-12T18:33:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T17:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2010-04-12T18:33:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T17:33:04","slug":"our-christmas-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"Our Christmas Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 weeks ago(!) we finally opened our Christmas present, just to check that we&#8217;d got the right thing for ourselves&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2442\/4490995772_e5326f4f91.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2442\/4490995772_e5326f4f91.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a quite big tent. Technically speaking a 6-berth, but the main thing we like about it (apart from the more room) is the fact that there&#8217;s room inside for the table and you can stand up in it. So if it rains, we don&#8217;t get sore necks any more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Joel demonstrating the spacious living area:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4064\/4490354373_1448a30445.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4064\/4490354373_1448a30445.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See how, with a massive tent to play in, he still squeezes himself into a wheelie suitcase!<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s Lily demonstrating the spacious sleeping area:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2705\/4490355439_02a27e6af6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2705\/4490355439_02a27e6af6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this photo you can see what I&#8217;m anticipating will be my favourite feature: pockets to put stuff in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2730\/4490997570_df16442a60.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2730\/4490997570_df16442a60.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All in all, a big success so far!<\/p>\n<p>We put it up the week before Easter and left it up for a couple of days so that the children could play in it over the holidays. Of course, they didn&#8217;t because as forecast (oh how I wish we&#8217;d checked!) it promptly rained really hard all week. It finally came down today (pretty easily, thank goodness) and I&#8217;m sure the grass won&#8217;t take too long to recover&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 weeks ago(!) we finally opened our Christmas present, just to check that we&#8217;d got the right thing for ourselves&#8230; It&#8217;s a quite big tent. Technically speaking a 6-berth, but the main thing we like about it (apart from the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=657\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday-pics","category-im-pleased-about","category-kids-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}