{"id":209922,"date":"2025-12-25T07:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209922\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T07:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:53:08","slug":"pigs-in-blankets-are-repulsive-and-not-an-irish-tradition-james-kavanagh-gets-brutally-honest-about-rating-christmas-dinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209922\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pigs in blankets are repulsive and not an Irish tradition\u2019 \u2013 James Kavanagh gets \u2018brutally honest\u2019 about rating Christmas dinners"},"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\">What started as a simple post sharing his own dinner plate has grown into a yearly tradition, with many followers looking for his approval\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"James Kavanagh with his cat Diana in his home in Kilkenny. Photo: Dylan Vaughan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ae7027cf-fb49-4c83-8ab6-3a757eed4d8e.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)\">James Kavanagh with his cat Diana in his home in Kilkenny. Photo: Dylan Vaughan<\/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)\">It started with James Kavanagh simply showing off his Christmas dinner plate. A Snapchat post from five or six years ago has since become, he said, \u201cthe thing people react to the most out of everything\u201d he shares on social media.<\/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)\">\u201cAs much as I adore Christmas dinner and carveries and beige, delicious food, I don\u2019t like mountains of food,\u201d the influencer and food entrepreneur said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What started as a simple post sharing his own dinner plate has grown into a yearly tradition, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9484,93,61,60,3478],"class_list":["post-209922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-christmas","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sarah-burke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209922","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=209922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}