{"id":496,"date":"2018-12-30T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T11:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/hawkseys-best-christmas-present-in-9-years\/"},"modified":"2018-12-30T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T11:13:22","slug":"hawkseys-best-christmas-present-in-9-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/home\/hawkseys-best-christmas-present-in-9-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawksey&#8217;s BEST Christmas Present in 9 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But the BESTEST thing that happened this Xmas was that yesterday, Hawksey met up with Zoe, his daughter. 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