{"id":82,"date":"2006-12-14T17:06:51","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T21:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2009-04-16T23:03:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T03:03:22","slug":"ahhh-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Ahhh! CHRISTMAS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Santa and children. Photo copyright Jim Doty Jr.\" title=\"Santa and children. Photo copyright Jim Doty Jr.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/120c_5185_wc4.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Santa and children. Photo \u00c2\u00a9 Jim Doty Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ahhh! Christmas!<\/p>\n<p>I was strolling through a local mall when I found &#8211; to my great surprise &#8211; Santa!  (I could tell who he was by the name on his belt.) He was visiting with two adorable children. They chatted and I took pictures. (The mother gave me permission to use this photo on my web site.)<\/p>\n<p><em>to continue, use the page links to the right<\/em><br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>I visited with Santa later in the day. He cut his beard down to 1\/4 inch in length the day after last Christmas, and he has been letting it grow ever since. Hmmmm. I didn&#8217;t know Santa cut his beard. The things they don&#8217;t teach you in school. Live and learn.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy the Christams season as much as I do.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas!\n<\/p>\n<p><!--534d43b7f510c56e01b85af052013973-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--bc4515309b1c897b8eb1cbb1fc0cd5e0-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--534d43b7f510c56e01b85af052013973-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--bc4515309b1c897b8eb1cbb1fc0cd5e0--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa and children. Photo \u00c2\u00a9 Jim Doty Jr. Ahhh! Christmas! I was strolling through a local mall when I found &#8211; to my great surprise &#8211; Santa! (I could tell who he was by the name on his belt.) He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/?p=82\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflections.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}