{"id":18477,"date":"2014-12-13T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=18477"},"modified":"2014-12-10T11:03:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T18:03:57","slug":"do-planes-follow-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/do-planes-follow-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"Do planes follow Santa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dear Ernest, <\/p>\n<p>Do planes filled with the secret <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/northpole-7\/\">elf<\/a> service follow Santa&#8217;s sleigh to ensure a safe flight?<\/p>\n<p>Matthew<br \/>\nDeltona, Florida  USA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not quite. <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> doesn&#8217;t like to use planes, although he is a licensed pilot. He tries to stay away from too many planes or helicopters especially on <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Eve. Frankly, they go just too slow for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But he loves sleighs. They have few moving parts to break down and they fly completely silent, which is important in Santa&#8217;s line of work. <\/p>\n<p>And yes, there are sleighs of elves who work behind <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> and in different parts of the world on <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Eve. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, if you listen to the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Tracking on Kringle <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/a-glimpse-of-christmas-100-years-ago\/\">Radio<\/a> each year you will hear live reports of news from a reporter who follows <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> around in the skies. Here is one report from last year&#8217;s flight:<\/p>\n<p>[powerpress]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Ernest, Do planes filled with the secret elf service follow Santa&#8217;s sleigh to ensure a safe flight? Matthew Deltona, Florida USA Not quite. Santa doesn&#8217;t like to use planes, although he is a licensed pilot. He tries to stay away from too many planes or helicopters especially on Christmas Eve. Frankly, they go just [&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":49,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,86],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-18477","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\/18477","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=18477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18477\/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=18477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}