{"id":72360,"date":"2018-12-21T14:49:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T13:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/21\/forget-the-rows-im-ready-to-celebrate-cold-turkey-with-the-in-laws-max-liu\/"},"modified":"2018-12-21T14:49:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T13:49:41","slug":"forget-the-rows-im-ready-to-celebrate-cold-turkey-with-the-in-laws-max-liu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=72360","title":{"rendered":"Forget the rows, I\u2019m ready to celebrate cold turkey with the in-laws | Max Liu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody\u2019s family is perfect \u2013 but Christmas is often a time to count your blessingsA year ago I asked my father-in-law: \u201cWho\u2019s this?\u201d I was referring to the catchy, moody song playing on his stereo. \u201cCigarettes After Sex,\u201d he said and I made a note of the band\u2019s slightly embarrassing-in-the-circumstances name. I discover a lot of new music through my father-in-law and am grateful to have married into a family who share many of my interests and attitudes. Not everyone is so lucky. From friends, I\u2019ve heard about Brexit rows across the dinner table, separate bedrooms imposed on couples in their 30s, interminable evenings with not enough wine. And I know from experience that, in spite of my good fortune, spending time cooped up with extended family over Christmas can still be a recipe for tension. Related: Love can thrive if we leave our comfort zones, even in the age of Brexit and Trump | Gaby Hinsliff Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/dec\/21\/turkey-in-laws-family-christmas\" target=\"_blank\">Forget the rows, I\u2019m ready to celebrate cold turkey with the in-laws | Max Liu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody\u2019s family is perfect \u2013 but Christmas is often a time to count your blessingsA year ago I asked my father-in-law: \u201cWho\u2019s this?\u201d I was referring to the catchy, moody song playing on his stereo. \u201cCigarettes After Sex,\u201d he said and I made a note of the band\u2019s slightly embarrassing-in-the-circumstances [&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-72360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72360","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=72360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}