{"id":2587,"date":"2013-12-26T12:45:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T02:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2013-12-30T11:18:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T01:18:18","slug":"the-boxing-day-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=2587","title":{"rendered":"The Boxing Day Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"icon_link\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/?p=2587\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p><strong>&#8220;No man ever talked in poetry &#8216;cept a beadle on boxin&#8217; day&#8221; (<a title=\"Charles Dickens\" href=\"http:\/\/&lt;a href=\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Dickens<\/a>, Pickwick Papers)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dating back to 1833, it is thought that <a title=\"Boxing Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/holidays\/australia\/boxing-day\" target=\"_blank\">Boxing Day <\/a>takes its name from the Christmas Boxes that servants were given by their employers when they returned to work the day after Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>It is also the day that both <a title=\"Harry S Truman \" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/about\/presidents\/harrystruman\" target=\"_blank\">Harry S Truman <\/a>and Gerald Ford, two former American Presidents, died; the day Earth\u2019s populations reached 5 billion in 1986 and the day that the traditional meal of <a title=\"Boxing Day\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.crystalinks.com\/boxingday.html\" target=\"_blank\">St Stephen\u2019s Day <\/a>pie is eaten.<\/p>\n<p>At <a title=\"Red Hill Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redhillgallery.com.au\/artists.html\" target=\"_blank\">Red Hill Gallery<\/a> <a title=\"Brisbane\" href=\"http:\/\/visitbrisbane.com.au\/Travel\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane<\/a> it is also the day we celebrate the birthday of Dexter, <a title=\"the Boxer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dog-breeds-and-gifts.com\/boxer-dog.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Boxer <\/a>who has been captured in Mela Cooke\u2019s bronze sculpture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mela-Cooke-Sculpture-Dexter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2598\" style=\"width: 322px; height: 201px;\" alt=\"Mela Cooke Sculpture Dexter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mela-Cooke-Sculpture-Dexter.jpg\" width=\"322\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mela-Cooke-Sculpture-Dexter.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mela-Cooke-Sculpture-Dexter-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dexter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2597 alignright\" alt=\"Dexter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dexter.jpg\" width=\"278\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dexter.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dexter-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is also the day that Australia celebrates that other great Aussie tradition Cricket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe start of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne represents the start of one of cricket\u2019s finest traditions in the long history of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Melbourne Cricket Ground \" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcg.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne Cricket Ground <\/a>first staged a Test on Boxing Day in 1950, as the fourth day\u2019s play between <a title=\"England and Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/ci\/engine\/match\/62714.html\" target=\"_blank\">England and Australia\u00a0<\/a> fell on December 26 of that year.\u201d <a title=\"Chris Teale\" href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/users\/775902-chris-teale ttp:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Teale<\/a> <a title=\"Bleacher Report\" href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/1899188-the-boxing-day-test-match-at-the-mcg-and-5-great-cricket-traditions\" target=\"_blank\">Bleacher Report <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/RichardKulma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2602\" alt=\"RichardKulma\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/RichardKulma.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/RichardKulma.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.artchat.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/RichardKulma-300x118.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); 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