{"id":93151,"date":"2015-07-02T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/93151\/juicy-tidbits-3\/"},"modified":"2015-07-02T09:53:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T07:53:13","slug":"juicy-tidbits-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2015\/07\/02\/juicy-tidbits-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Juicy tidbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know about you, but this time of year is always hard for me.<\/p>\n<p>What am I talking about?<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>I think you know what I mean&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the blues, the funk, the downs brought on by winter.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The cold gets tiresome and, if I let it, the cold and wind seep into my body, giving me a matching cold and bitter attitude.<\/p>\n<p>I feel exhausted and cranky and doodle stick figures of me and my hubby standing on a warm beach in the sun.<\/p>\n<p>But surely there is a way to beat the winter funk?<\/p>\n<p>After posting the question on Facebook and Twitter here are some simple suggestions on how to make the cold winter days and nights more bearable:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Long hot bubble baths.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Hearty soups.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Days spent cuddled up in bed or on the couch with a good book or a stack of movies.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Keeping active.<\/li>\n<li>A big cup of coffee or tea.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Baking.<\/li>\n<li>Shopping.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Siske van Niekerk suggested, \u201cA midday stroll to catch some \u2018rays\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others don\u2019t mind the weather at all. Rhonda Frame-Pritchard said, \u201cI don\u2019t need to beat the winter funk. I love winter, I carry on doing what I love, and then I don\u2019t even feel the cold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Join the conversation and share your tips at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GCNnews\" target=\"_blank\">@GCNnews<\/a>, using the hashtag #beatingthewinterfunk<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='326218bdee2c0ab4ddd8f48a02eae2f4'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you beat the winter funk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":93152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8518,6],"tags":[1166,8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-93151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-opinion-edition","tag-blog","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Blogs"},"tag_labels":["blog","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}