{"id":233,"date":"2009-12-15T15:47:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T14:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cvmen.org.uk\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2015-03-02T10:18:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T10:18:30","slug":"merry-christmas-from-cvm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/uncategorized\/merry-christmas-from-cvm\/","title":{"rendered":"Men and Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nniWQfRcz8Y&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Check out the December e:Quip from CVM. 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