{"id":1397,"date":"2012-12-24T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conniesmithson.com\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2018-04-17T17:28:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T17:28:15","slug":"happy-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/2012\/12\/24\/happy-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though my kids are either in their middle to late teens and two are adults now, each year as tradition, I &#8220;track Santa&#8221; for them. I&#8217;ve been doing this since they were old enough to talk and ask me to do this special thing. To this day, I still find a television station or a radio station that will tell where Santa is at each given hour. Now with internet, it&#8217;s much easier to do, if not for them to find a smile or memory in, but for me. My oldest daughter has taken the tradition over with her children, even though my grand kids are older also.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, Santa is dropping off gifts to the people in a country I can&#8217;t begin to pronounce let alone spell. I know I&#8217;m more excited about this than the kids, but I&#8217;ve noticed them paying attention to where Santa is when I holler it out so they can hear me in their rooms. The house echos with, &#8220;That&#8217;s cool, Mom&#8221;, or a &#8220;He has a long way to go, Mom&#8221;, along with other acknowledgements, from various rooms. I&#8217;m loving having them all together for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>So, to your house from ours, we wish you a very Happy Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though my kids are either in their middle to late teens and two are adults now, each year as tradition, I &#8220;track Santa&#8221; for them. I&#8217;ve been doing this since they were old enough to talk and ask me to do this special thing. To this day, I still find a television station or a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/2012\/12\/24\/happy-christmas-eve\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Christmas Eve&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,15],"tags":[190,406,415,505,735,801,908,931,934],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-friends","category-holidays","tag-christmas","tag-gifts","tag-grand-children","tag-internet","tag-radio","tag-santa","tag-television","tag-tracker","tag-traditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}