{"id":97,"date":"2007-12-20T13:58:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T18:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/12\/20\/1198177106339.html"},"modified":"2007-12-20T13:58:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T18:58:26","slug":"blogentry-build-your-own-santa-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] Build Your Own Santa Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, Christmas.  I look forward to having smart kids.  I also don&#039;t like lying to my kids &#8211; I&#039;m bad at it.  So Christmas the whole Santa Claus thing is going to prove interesting.  As the years go by and various events come and go, we&#039;re forming our own set of rules that explain how Santa does what he does:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#034;How come Santa brought me some stuff that&#039;s not on my list, but he didn&#039;t bring me some things that are on my list?&#034;  Got that question last year.  Answer &#8211; because Santa always brings three things &#8211; *some* stuff from your list, *some* stuff you *need*, and some stuff he *thinks* you might like.  This seems to have gone over very well, to the point where my daughter spotted a toy on tv the other day and told me, &#034;Even though I already mailed my list, maybe Santa will think I&#039;d like that.&#034;\n<li>&#034;That lady is not Mrs. Claus, you can see the wig.&#034;  Just happened this weekend, as our daughter almost ruined the fun for her little friends at a tea party.  Answer &#8211; You know, you might be right, it might be somebody in a wig.  But I&#039;ll tell you a secret?  Sometimes it&#039;s the *real* one.  They come down in disguise and hang out sometimes too, you know.  You didn&#039;t?  Oh, absolutely, that&#039;s part of the fun. You just <em>never know<\/em>.\n<li>&#034;The kids at school say they don&#039;t believe in Santa Claus and they still get presents.&#034;  Answer &#8211; Well, sure, you get *some* presents from your Mom and Dad and friends and relatives.  But you don&#039;t get Santa presents, now do you?  That&#039;s how Santa does so many houses in one night, he gets to skip the houses of kids who say they don&#039;t believe in him.\n<li>This one is not mine, but have you heard that the new thing is to put the milk and cookies in a &#034;to go&#034; bag for Santa?  Helps him keep in schedule, you see &#8211; he eats them on the way to the next house.\n<\/ul>\n<p>It should be fun watching as the rules change over the years.  With a 5, 3 and 1.5 yr old they&#039;ll all be at different stages of believing as time goes by and we&#039;ll be able to enlist the older ones in helping the younger ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, Christmas. I look forward to having smart kids. I also don&#039;t like lying to my kids &#8211; I&#039;m bad at it. So Christmas the whole Santa Claus thing is going to prove interesting. As the years go by and various events come and go, we&#039;re forming our own set of rules that explain how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}