{"id":17241,"date":"2017-11-04T21:26:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T21:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=17241"},"modified":"2017-11-04T21:26:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T21:26:54","slug":"george-ous-john-lewiss-last-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/george-ous-john-lewiss-last-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"George-ous: John Lewis\u2019 Last Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Words:\u00a0Kiera Chapman | Subbing: Joanne Clark<\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Every year, as lights start to wrap their crystal bulbed fingers above and around the streets of London, Boots boasts it\u2019s 3 for 2 deals and a whiff of mulled wine whips your nose as you trench out a muggy Oxford Circus. <\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">However, the ultimate festivities signifier is the first official broadcast of the John Lewis advert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This year, it\u2019s been reported that a version of Last Christmas will be the soundtrack of the commercial, in honour of the singer George Michael, who passed away last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">John Lewis\u2019s Christmas alumni include the likes of Gabrielle Aplin, Tom Odell and Vaults, so it\u2019s only natural an incredible amount of anticipation saddles the 2017\u2019s first broadcast, which will be either November 9th (like last year) or 10th. This will mean John Lewis reverting back to tradition and following all the previous before 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">From snowmen to actual men, touching on love and loss &#8211; the large retail chain never fails to send the entirety of the UK on an emotional rollercoaster, leaving them with the strong urge to purchase an item from the homeware range afterwards in a bid to salvage some sort of sanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rumour has it, John Lewis are steering away from tradition and creating their very own creature altogether this time round.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u201cThis year the John Lewis advert will revolve around a big cuddly monster,\u201d a source told OK Magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This can mean anything from The Gruffalo to an out of proportion Basil Brush. Either way, John Lewis will remain very much part of the The Great British Christmas Build Up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17244\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/11\/jad-limcaco-281097.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4896\" height=\"3264\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words:\u00a0Kiera Chapman | Subbing: Joanne Clark Every year, as lights start to wrap their crystal bulbed fingers above and around the streets of London, Boots boasts it\u2019s 3 for 2 deals and a whiff of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[338,1332,2621,3365,3769,4697,6505],"class_list":["post-17241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-advert","tag-christmas","tag-george-michael","tag-john-lewis","tag-london","tag-oxford-circus","tag-tv"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}