{"id":573896480,"date":"2023-12-21T21:30:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T02:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573896480"},"modified":"2024-01-01T02:43:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T07:43:58","slug":"santa-at-the-christmas-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2023\/12\/21\/santa-at-the-christmas-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa, at the Christmas party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec23\/dec37.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There were no stockings, but the jolly one was there!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec23\/dec38.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This was not my first run-in with Santa. Here he was, preparing to make his grand entrance in 2018.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;overflow:hidden\" frameborder=\"0\" type=\"text\/html\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x8oh7bo\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" allowfullscreen title=\"Dailymotion Video Player\" > <\/iframe> <\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a Christmas party my mother-in-law runs. It&#8217;s beautiful. They put out the nativity. Santa jingles his bells and the whole room lights up as he ambles in to hand out presents. There are cupcakes and music and a lot of fun and smiling faces. If you need the Christmas spirit, this is where you find it. <\/p>\n<p>The Special Church Christmas party is always one of the best invites of the holiday season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. There were no stockings, but the jolly one was there! This was not my first run-in with Santa. Here he was, preparing to make his grand entrance in 2018. It&#8217;s a Christmas party my mother-in-law runs. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573896480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-family","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573896480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573896480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573896480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573896482,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573896480\/revisions\/573896482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573896480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573896480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573896480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}