{"id":21596,"date":"2017-12-29T14:45:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T13:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/29\/heseltines-moment-of-truth-and-a-christmas-social-media-miracle-john-crace\/"},"modified":"2017-12-29T14:45:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T13:45:04","slug":"heseltines-moment-of-truth-and-a-christmas-social-media-miracle-john-crace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=21596","title":{"rendered":"Heseltine&#039;s moment of truth and a Christmas social media miracle | John Crace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of Conservative old stagers are at odds over Brexit while Twitter momentarily restores my faith in humanityTwenty-five years ago, when our daughter was just six months old, my wife and I and another family rented a miserable house on a noisy main road for Christmas \u2013 it was before the internet and the owner had assured us over the phone that it was in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales \u2013 and we only managed to cook the turkey by force-feeding the electricity meter with 50 pence pieces. It was so cold that we stayed in bed to open our stockings and to ease my wife\u2019s pain I had slipped a half bottle of scotch into the bottom of hers. Ever since, the tradition has stuck and even though our children are now adults \u2013 we live in terror that every Christmas will be our last as a family and that they will next year want to go elsewhere with their friends \u2013 they troop into our bedroom with their stockings and climb into our bed. Along with the dog. It\u2019s one of the more uncomfortable, if treasured, moments of the year. And what goes around comes around. I now find myself loading alcohol into my children\u2019s stockings as well as my wife\u2019s. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/dec\/29\/heseltine-brexit-truth-christmas-social-media-miracle\" target=\"_blank\">Heseltine&#039;s moment of truth and a Christmas social media miracle | John Crace<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of Conservative old stagers are at odds over Brexit while Twitter momentarily restores my faith in humanityTwenty-five years ago, when our daughter was just six months old, my wife and I and another family rented a miserable house on a noisy main road for Christmas \u2013 it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}