{"id":2193,"date":"2020-12-25T15:34:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T15:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2020-12-25T15:34:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T15:34:58","slug":"a-christmas-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2193","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Merry Christmas everyone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I mentioned yesterday that Emily had done\/was doing a FaceTime call with Santa. I found out that wasn\u2019t technically true. A day or so ago, she had a Zoom session with Santa Claus. I\u2019m not sure how it all came about, but there was Emily sitting in front of her computer having a conversation with old Saint Nick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were able to see a video of the session (that her mom recorded) and it looked like they were having a perfectly fine conversation \u2014 you\u2019d think she was talking to one of her friends.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We found out later that she told her mom that she thought that she was probably talking to the <em>real<\/em> Santa. The one thing that seemed to bother her a little bit was that at the top of the Zoom window, it didn\u2019t say \u201cSanta,\u201d it said \u201cCathy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelly told her that maybe it was one of Santa\u2019s elves that help Santa with all the modern technology. Emily seemed to think that might be possible, but she said it would have to have been an old elf, because the elf\u2019s parents would have to be really old to choose a name like Cathy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So after all these years, I\u2019ve learned that elves apparently have names \u2014I\u2019d always just heard them referred to as \u201celves.\u201d Next thing you know, I\u2019ll probably find out that Mrs. Claus has a first name\u2026.<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas everyone. I think I mentioned yesterday that Emily had done\/was doing a FaceTime call with Santa. I found out that wasn\u2019t technically true. A day or so ago, she had a Zoom session with Santa Claus. I\u2019m not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2193\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}