{"id":18388,"date":"2014-12-11T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=18388"},"modified":"2014-12-09T00:16:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T07:16:02","slug":"what-happens-if-santa-gets-sick-on-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/what-happens-if-santa-gets-sick-on-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens if Santa gets sick on Christmas Eve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dear Ernest (on behalf of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/northpole-7\/\">Elf<\/a> Dr. Lionel, head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/northpole-7\/\">North Pole<\/a> Medical Center), <\/p>\n<p>What happens if <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> gets sick on <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Eve?<\/p>\n<p>Savannah<br \/>\nMagnolia, NC  USA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a really good question and, honestly, it is one we ask and worry about all the time here at the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/northpole-7\/\">North Pole<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>We have discussed it many times with Mrs. Claus. As you might imagine, Mrs. Claus is very protective of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a>. She makes sure he eats right and stays healthy. If he ever shows even a sign of the slightest sniffles she makes him visit <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/northpole-7\/\">Elf<\/a> Dr. Lionel and puts him right to bed. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> is very healthy. And he only rarely catches even a cold. He&#8217;s amazing. <\/p>\n<p>But he is human. He has a back up plan in case he gets sick. <\/p>\n<p>It would take someone really special to do what <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> does if <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> can&#8217;t do it. And the only one who could possibly pull that off would be Mrs. Claus. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, she would have a lot of elves and reindeer to help her. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Ernest (on behalf of Elf Dr. Lionel, head of the North Pole Medical Center), What happens if Santa gets sick on Christmas Eve? Savannah Magnolia, NC USA That&#8217;s a really good question and, honestly, it is one we ask and worry about all the time here at the North Pole. We have discussed it [&hellip;]<\/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":509,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,86],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-18388","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\/18388","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=18388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18388\/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=18388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}