{"id":152,"date":"2007-12-17T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/wpblog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2018-03-03T12:23:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T20:23:46","slug":"some-holiday-cheer-and-a-special-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/some-holiday-cheer-and-a-special-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Holiday Cheer &#8211; and a Special Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a week left until Christmas day. Which means that I might need to start shopping.<\/p>\n<p>I did exhibit a bit of holiday spirit this weekend. I put on the red suit for a group of children from our church. It&#8217;s a fun tradition for the children: doughnuts and juice, then a visit with Santa. <\/p>\n<p>Just two kids were less than thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>But the funniest one was the 6 year old girl that gave me a printed list, while her parents watched. Included with a short list of toys was the item &#8220;a baby sister&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Santa&#8221; wasn&#8217;t sure how he could help with that. And her mother tried to catch my eye to make sure that Santa didn&#8217;t make any promises he couldn&#8217;t keep.<\/p>\n<p>I provided, like all good Santas, a non-committal response of &#8220;Those are fun gifts! Thanks for letting me know.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week left until Christmas day. Which means that I might need to start shopping.<\/p>\n<p>I did exhibit a bit of holiday spirit this weekend. I put on the red suit for a group of children from our church. It&#8217;s a fun tradition for the children: doughnuts and juice, then a visit with Santa. <\/p>\n<p>Just two kids were less than thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>But the funniest one was the 6 year old girl that gave me a printed list,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/some-holiday-cheer-and-a-special-request\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Some Holiday Cheer &#8211; and a Special Request &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-saying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}