{"id":17783,"date":"2014-12-03T02:30:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T09:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=17783"},"modified":"2014-11-30T08:12:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T15:12:17","slug":"what-do-the-reindeer-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/what-do-the-reindeer-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"What do the reindeer eat?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Ernest, <\/p>\n

What do the reindeer eat?<\/p>\n

Fiona
\nPortales, NM USA<\/em><\/p>\n

I decided to talk to Elf Victor<\/strong><\/a>, Santa’s head of reindeer operations, about that question. I know that I leave out carrots for them on Christmas<\/a> Eve. But I started to wonder if that was the right thing to do. <\/p>\n

“Oh, it is definitely the right thing to do,” Elf<\/a> Victor said. “Carrots are like candy to a reindeer. And they are good for them too. Reindeer usually eat a mixture of grains — oats and barley, that kind of thing. We feed them veggies, too and, of course, they graze on wild grasses, berries, and sage. Reindeer are naturally very healthy eaters.”<\/p>\n

Elf<\/a> Victor said that some people think they have to go out and buy special food for the reindeer on Christmas<\/a> Eve. This is not true. Usually he said that if you can find some carrots or celery in your refrigerator that would be more appreciated than anything bought at a store. Never feed chocolate to reindeer. It upsets their tummies. <\/p>\n

Have a question? Ask an elf!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Ernest, What do the reindeer eat? Fiona Portales, NM USA I decided to talk to Elf Victor, Santa’s head of reindeer operations, about that question. I know that I leave out carrots for them on Christmas Eve. But I started to wonder if that was the right thing to do. “Oh, it is definitely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":4027,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,86],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-17783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ask-ernest","category-north-pole","tag-ask-an-elf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}