{"id":165535,"date":"2025-11-29T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/165535\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:10:09","slug":"festive-survival-guide-50-hacks-for-christmas-party-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/165535\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive survival guide: 50 hacks for Christmas party season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFrom how to avoid a HR incident at the work Christmas bash to nabbing a last-minute table at a Michelin-star restaurant, the experts share their best advice to help you make it to December 25 unscathed\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The festive survival guide\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c46030ea-5e33-478c-8b55-976f245590ea.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The festive survival guide<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">How to survive party season:<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cIf you\u2019re meeting at a restaurant and the [reservation] is at 8pm, you have to be there five minutes before that, but if the party is in someone\u2019s home, I think you should be fashionably 10 minutes late,\u201d says etiquette consultant Patricia Maybury (theetiquettesuite.ie). Any earlier, and your host may still be frantically finishing their make-up or chopping up lemon slices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From how to avoid a HR incident at the work Christmas bash to nabbing a last-minute table at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9484,103,61,60,86771],"class_list":["post-165535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-christmas","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-meadhbh-mcgrath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}