{"id":724,"date":"2004-12-06T07:09:44","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T14:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2004-12-06T07:09:44","modified_gmt":"2004-12-06T14:09:44","slug":"did-the-elves-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"Did the elves come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy bought this <a href=\"http:\/\/scally.typepad.com\/cest_moi_qui_lai_fait\/2004\/11\/calendrier_de_l.html\">Advent Calendar<\/a> for the kids when they were very<br \/>\nsmall.  We would put little &#8216;trinkets&#8217; from the elves in the<br \/>\npockets for the girls to find each morning.  I can&#8217;t tell you how<br \/>\nmany mornings we would wake up in a panic because we forgot to take<br \/>\ncare of the elves.  One of us would wake up and then gently wake<br \/>\nthe other asking &#8220;Did the elves come last night?&#8221;  Which would<br \/>\nlead to either the reponse &#8220;yes&#8221;, or frantically digging through the<br \/>\nelves bag of gifts to find something for the tree, hopefully before the<br \/>\ngirls woke up.<\/p>\n<p>Once the girls realized that the elves were coming every night they<br \/>\nstarted leaving torn little bits of paper with notes for the<br \/>\nelves.  They would ask questions about the elves, &#8220;what is your<br \/>\nname&#8221;, &#8220;what do you look like&#8221;, &#8220;will you bring me a puppy&#8221;?<br \/>\nCindy and I would write back in our best elven handwriting.  I<br \/>\nneed to look around, but I think I still have those notes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0100146\/images\/2004\/12\/06\/IMGP3462.JPG\" alt=\"A picture named IMGP3462.JPG\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"512\" hspace=\"15\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"384\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy bought this Advent Calendar for the kids when they were very small. We would put little &#8216;trinkets&#8217; from the elves in the pockets for the girls to find each morning. I can&#8217;t tell you how many mornings we would &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=724\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}