{"id":102206,"date":"2020-12-24T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/?p=102206"},"modified":"2020-12-21T16:07:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T16:07:30","slug":"merry-christmas-one-and-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/presenters\/simon-biagi\/merry-christmas-one-and-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas one and all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">We start our Christmas celebrations very early at QVC ( July&#8230;. 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