{"id":1670,"date":"2013-01-01T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2013-01-01T00:04:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:04:21","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year !"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/happy-new-year\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1671\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2013\/01\/happy-new-year\/happynewyear-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/HappyNewYear.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,512\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"HappyNewYear\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/HappyNewYear.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1671\" title=\"HappyNewYear\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/HappyNewYear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/HappyNewYear.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/HappyNewYear-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year to all of customers, past, present and future ! Many thanks for your custom and comments over the past year, and here&#8217;s to 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year to all of customers, past, present and future ! Many thanks for your custom and comments over the past year, and here&#8217;s to 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates-and-general-waffle"],"views":2619,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-qW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6131,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/01\/a-belated-happy-new-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":1670,"position":0},"title":"A Belated Happy New Year","author":"Tony","date":"January 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy New Year from us at Brigade Towers - better late then never! 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