{"id":3517,"date":"2018-12-25T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2019-01-05T16:54:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T16:54:18","slug":"sweet-noggy-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2018\/12\/sweet-noggy-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet, Noggy Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We\u2019re always searching for unconventional ideas for our annual hand-letterpressed Christmas cards in my world. Always plenty of bad unconventional ideas come up (I actually think the Angel Grinder<\/a> was pretty good!), but this year\u2019s was a doozy: eggnog.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been spending Christmas outside of the UK for so long now I\u2019m not sure if eggnog has finally been imported to these shores, but even in its cultural home of America, it still baffles me. It\u2019s kind of like the milkshake you never wanted.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t really taste eggy. It sits in the same American Holiday category as pumpkin pie in my mind – a kind of not-entirely-sweet thing that is equally misunderstood outside of the US. I\u2019ve acquired a taste for pumpkin pie now, but every year I\u2019m on that side of the Atlantic ocean at Christmastime, I drink eggnog and wonder why I\u2019m doing it.<\/p>\n

I even went to the effort this year of making my own eggnog from fresh ingredients – the real stuff is basically the same ingredient set as a good gelato, so nothing to be afraid of (though your pipes might feel differently). The homemade stuff was definitely better, but still utterly perplexing.<\/p>\n

Perplexing – perfect for our Christmas cards! To print we went, with a nice little halftone pattern giving the illustration that extra bit of depth. Super satisfying!<\/p>\n\n\n

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We\u2019re always searching for unconventional ideas for our annual hand-letterpressed Christmas cards in my world. Always plenty of bad unconventional ideas come up (I actually think the Angel Grinder was pretty good!), but this year\u2019s was a doozy: eggnog. I\u2019ve been spending Christmas outside of the UK for so long now I\u2019m not sure if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[691,38,307,498,693,690,692,473,694,337],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterpress","tag-carton","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-card","tag-christmas-cards","tag-dots","tag-eggnog","tag-halftone","tag-letterpress","tag-tistheseason","tag-yellow"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DSC_6463.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pC5Eo-UJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}