{"id":96807,"date":"2025-12-27T00:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/96807\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T00:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:16:18","slug":"what-is-boxing-day-action-news-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/96807\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Boxing Day? \u2013 Action News Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hustle and bustle of Christmas is over, and Dec. 26 marks Boxing Day as the next celebration in the end of the year festivities.<\/p>\n

But not everyone celebrates this one. <\/p>\n

Boxing Day is traditionally celebrated in Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, according to the website National Day Calendar<\/a>. <\/p>\n

It started when Queen Victoria was on the throne. <\/p>\n

According to the Old Farmer\u2019s Almanac<\/a>, it started when the upper class would \u201cbox up leftover food, money, or goods and give them to their tradesmen as well as their servants for reliable service all year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dec. 26 is also known as St. Stephen\u2019s Day, a saint known for helping the poor. <\/p>\n

It is marked by a day off for countries under British rule. This year, however, some federal government workers have Dec. 26 off too after President Donald Trump declared<\/a> the day before Christmas and the day after Christmas federal holidays, USA Today<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

How to celebrate?<\/p>\n

If you want to participate in the tradition, you can do what many people do: invite friends over to help eat the Christmas Day leftovers, USA Today<\/a> reported. <\/p>\n

There are also sporting events. While some traditional Boxing Day events, such as a fox hunt, have been banned, football has taken over. There are also hockey games, boxing and cricket events.<\/p>\n

As a column in The New York Times<\/a> said in 2022, \u201cChristmas belongs to the family. On Boxing Day, you do you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a9 2025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hustle and bustle of Christmas is over, and Dec. 26 marks Boxing Day as the next celebration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[51273,14494,29088,51274,51275,168,1191,51276,50123,51277,37522,166,15973,51278,1555,30730,36026,51279,51280,15980,2888,1186,320,51281,5052,116,118,117,51282,8595,51283,51284,51285,29175,3991,51286,51287,51288,2895,43031,22158,43032,2898,1100,43033,51289,51290,2315,5516,12650,7982,9711,51291],"class_list":["post-96807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-berries","tag-box","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-day","tag-celebrate","tag-celebration","tag-christmas","tag-congratulating","tag-congratulations","tag-cozy","tag-crafts","tag-day","tag-decoration","tag-decorative","tag-event","tag-festive","tag-gift","tag-greetings","tag-handcrafts","tag-handmade","tag-happy","tag-holidays","tag-home","tag-homemade","tag-house","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-kraft","tag-message","tag-minimal","tag-minimalist","tag-nice","tag-nostalgia","tag-object","tag-ornament","tag-ornamental","tag-paper","tag-party","tag-present","tag-retro","tag-ribbon","tag-rustic","tag-season","tag-seasonal","tag-signboard","tag-square","tag-table","tag-text","tag-vintage","tag-white","tag-wooden","tag-wrapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}