{"id":1735,"date":"2021-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/uncategorized\/keep-christmas-baubles-up-through-lockdown-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T14:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T14:38:54","slug":"keep-christmas-baubles-up-through-lockdown-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/keep-christmas-baubles-up-through-lockdown-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Christmas baubles up through lockdown | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas decorations | Use for old Guardians | LP fans | Voice notes<\/p>\n<p>As a rational atheist, I am certain that warnings founded on superstition are nonsense and deserve to be ignored. But this year, please could the staff at Buckingham Palace, Downing Street, Trafalgar Square etc ensure that every bauble, every shred of tinsel and every pine needle is taken down, packed away and cleared up by 6 January.<br \/><strong>Dominic Rayner<\/strong><br \/><em>Leeds<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&bull; One way to deal with lockdown at the dreariest and most depressing time of the year is to forget Twelfth Night and keep the Christmas decorations up until it is over.<br \/><strong>John Cundill<\/strong><br \/><em>London<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/jan\/05\/keep-christmas-baubles-up-through-lockdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas decorations | Use for old Guardians | LP fans | Voice notes As a rational atheist, I am certain that warnings founded on superstition are nonsense and deserve to be ignored. 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