{"id":459,"date":"2005-12-20T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2005\/12\/you-better-watch-out-santa.html"},"modified":"2005-12-20T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T14:13:00","slug":"you-better-watch-out-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2005\/12\/you-better-watch-out-santa.html","title":{"rendered":"You Better Watch Out&#8230; Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My toddling niece is approaching her third Christmas much like she approaches life in general.  And in case you don&#8217;t know her, suffice it to say that she is red-headed all the way down to her marrow, and cute enough to get away with it.<\/p>\n<p>Like many kids her age, she made the pilgrimage to see Santa.  Unlike many, she wasn&#8217;t scared or reluctant.  When it was her turn, she marched on up.  And Santa said in his Santa way, &#8220;So little girl, what would you like for Christmas?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t hesitate, but looked him square in the eye, and in her best pre-school voice announced, &#8220;I want to fly.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Santa apparently handled the request well and tried to manage her expectations.  But I&#8217;m pretty sure he&#8217;s gonna have some &#8216;splainin&#8217; to do when she hops out of bed Christmas morning and lands on her feet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My toddling niece is approaching her third Christmas much like she approaches life in general. And in case you don&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2005\/12\/you-better-watch-out-santa.html\" title=\"Read You Better Watch Out&#8230; Santa\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}