{"id":208559,"date":"2025-12-24T12:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208559\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T12:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:39:09","slug":"be-kind-get-outside-and-dont-aim-for-a-perfect-christmas-festive-messages-from-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208559\/","title":{"rendered":"Be kind, get outside and don\u2019t aim for a \u2018perfect\u2019 Christmas: festive messages from celebrities"},"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\">Ahead of the big day, some well-known faces share their messages of hope, inspiration, reflection and joy with Andrea Smith\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Senator Frances Black pictured at Leinster House, Dublin on February 10, 2025. (Photo by Grainne Ni Aodha\/PA Images via Getty Images)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/115081153.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)\">Senator Frances Black pictured at Leinster House, Dublin on February 10, 2025. (Photo by Grainne Ni Aodha\/PA Images via Getty Images)<\/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)\">Christmas is celebrated in many different ways around the world.<\/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)\">A smile, a listening ear, or a helping hand can brighten someone\u2019s day, and in a world where there is so much anger and division, kindness and compassion are so important \u2013 they\u2019re grounding principles. It\u2019s what keeps our communities humane, hopeful, and able to weather the tough days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the big day, some well-known faces share their messages of hope, inspiration, reflection and joy with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9484,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-208559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-christmas","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208559","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=208559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}