{"id":9352,"date":"2018-12-12T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=9352"},"modified":"2018-11-15T13:01:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T13:01:17","slug":"the-countdown-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/12\/the-countdown-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Countdown Starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/12\/the-countdown-starts\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Five days to go on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Xmas.html\">Christmas sale<\/a>, so we&#8217;re into the last stretch now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Xmas.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9353\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/12\/the-countdown-starts\/countdown-5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Countdown-5.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,523\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Countdown-5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Countdown-5.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Countdown-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Countdown-5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Countdown-5-768x502.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five days to go on our Christmas sale, so we&#8217;re into the last stretch now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9353,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-special-offers"],"views":1878,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Countdown-5.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2qQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9340,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/11\/christmas-sale-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":9352,"position":0},"title":"Christmas Sale 2018","author":"Tony","date":"November 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"So it's already that time again - the Brigade Christmas Sale starts today ! 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