{"id":10484,"date":"2025-12-31T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/?p=10484"},"modified":"2025-12-31T20:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:00:26","slug":"december-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/2025\/12\/31\/december-25\/","title":{"rendered":"December &#8217;25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/33c35ac8-e2dd-4d3d-b6f4-9257f710efa2-300x135.jpeg\" alt=\"The highlight from December!\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10635\" \/>The final stretch of 2025, and we celebrated it thoroughly. The highlight was Alan celebrating his 10th birthday! He got a very big stack of gifts. After that, we started the day with a BBQ in G\u00e1ldar. We had a reserved spot, so we didn&#8217;t have to worry about availability. Together with a bag of charcoal, plenty of meat and drinks, some marshmallows for dessert, and to finish, a beautiful cake. Afterwards, the children spent an hour playing ninja games. A day later, it was party time again, this time with his whole class.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leiden365.nl\/blog\/?p=10600&#038;lang=en\">Sinterklaas<\/a> came by again, and Santa Claus paid us a visit. To top it all off, we even went on a short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leiden365.nl\/blog\/?p=10596&#038;lang=en\">weekend trip<\/a> to Tenerife. Just a quick boat ride there and back, through a big storm, to greet Alex&#8217;s godfather and Alan&#8217;s pan-godfather. He was on the island for a conference, so we couldn&#8217;t pass up the chance to drop by.<\/p>\n<p>The last part of the month I&#8217;ll be on my own. I don&#8217;t have any vacation days left, and Ana is visiting her family with the kids. A nice opportunity for me to really relax and focus on my hobbies.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final stretch of 2025, and we celebrated it thoroughly. The highlight was Alan celebrating his 10th birthday! He got a very big stack of gifts. After that, we started the day with a BBQ in G\u00e1ldar. We had a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/2025\/12\/31\/december-25\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}