{"id":18818,"date":"2014-12-21T02:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=18818"},"modified":"2014-12-15T05:56:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T12:56:28","slug":"does-santa-receive-any-presents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/does-santa-receive-any-presents\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Santa receive any presents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dear Ernest, <\/p>\n<p>Does <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> receive any presents?<\/p>\n<p>Karlee<br \/>\nBellingham, USA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, every year. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> is a big believer in <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a>. He hangs his stocking every year. <\/p>\n<p>I know this sounds goofy. What is even goofier is that <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> is always surprised by what he gets for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> every year. Last year he received some new golf balls and he was like, well, a little boy on <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>. He just couldn&#8217;t wait to use them. He was so surprised he just giggled. <\/p>\n<p>How does that happen?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really sure. I think Mrs. Claus has something to do with it. Not that <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> would sit on her knee or anything but I think Mrs. Claus works with the elves to surprise <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> every <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> often jokes &#8220;I&#8217;m just a delivery boy!&#8221; but in his case, I think it might be a little bit true. I think Mrs. Claus makes the arrangements and has the elves wrap it up and slip it into Santa&#8217;s sack. <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> comes to his own house like he does any other to deliver presents. <\/p>\n<p>Why wouldn&#8217;t he include himself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Ernest, Does Santa receive any presents? Karlee Bellingham, USA Yes, every year. Santa is a big believer in Santa. He hangs his stocking every year. I know this sounds goofy. What is even goofier is that Santa is always surprised by what he gets for Christmas every year. Last year he received some new [&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":125,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,86],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-18818","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\/18818","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=18818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18818\/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=18818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}