{"id":18230,"date":"2019-12-22T18:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T23:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18230"},"modified":"2019-12-27T20:33:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T01:33:52","slug":"santas-pre-visit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18230","title":{"rendered":"Santa&#8217;s Pre-Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18232\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_20191222_172867.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18232\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_20191222_172867-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Santa&#039;s Pre-Visit\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_20191222_172867-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_20191222_172867-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_20191222_172867-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_20191222_172867-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_20191222_172867.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa&#8217;s Pre-Visit<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In our neighborhood, Santa makes a pre-Christmas visit, just to be sure he knows where everyone lives. For all I know he does this everywhere, but we don&#8217;t live everywhere, so we only know about here. He doesn&#8217;t keep as low a profile on this visit as he does on Christmas eve and morning. In fact, he makes a fair amount of noise, with Christmas music blasting from speakers on his &#x2018;sleigh&#x2019; and an occasional &#x201c;ho, ho, ho&#x201c; thrown in for good measure. He and his helpers had bags of goodies for the children in the neighborhood, as well and a good time was had by all. Now, to wait for his second visit in a few day&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our neighborhood, Santa makes a pre-Christmas visit, just to be sure he knows where everyone lives. For all I know he does this everywhere, but we don&#8217;t live everywhere, so we only know about here. He doesn&#8217;t keep as low a profile on this visit as he does on Christmas eve and morning. In &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18230\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[317,1172,2181,2180,2178,2179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18234,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18230\/revisions\/18234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}