{"id":18816,"date":"2014-12-20T02:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=18816"},"modified":"2014-12-15T05:49:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T12:49:47","slug":"does-santa-have-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/does-santa-have-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Santa have children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dear <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/northpole-7\/\">Elf<\/a> Ernest, <\/p>\n<p>Does <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> have any children?<\/p>\n<p>Alana<br \/>\nWarragul, Australia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes. But they are all grown up now and have children of their own. That means <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> is also a grandfather. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I know that opens up a great many more questions in your mind. What is it like being Santa&#8217;s kid? Do his grandchildren know he is <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Claus? Does he ever give them rides on the sleigh?<\/p>\n<p>I cannot answer those questions for you because I really don&#8217;t know the answers. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> keeps his family very private. Like all parents and grandparents <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> and Mrs. Claus <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a> their family very much. They celebrate <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> together and are very happy people. <\/p>\n<p>I have never seen <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> bring any of his grandchildren to work with him. Some of his family does not even live at the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/northpole-7\/\">North Pole<\/a> (but others do). <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> and Mrs. Claus visit their family often. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> is just a regular guy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Elf Ernest, Does Santa have any children? Alana Warragul, Australia Yes. But they are all grown up now and have children of their own. That means Santa is also a grandfather. Now, I know that opens up a great many more questions in your mind. What is it like being Santa&#8217;s kid? Do his [&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":2089,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,86],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-18816","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\/18816","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=18816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18816\/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=18816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}