{"id":1382,"date":"2007-12-10T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T20:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandmpond.com\/blog\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2007-12-10T14:39:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T20:39:18","slug":"santas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/santas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blogimages\/SantasStory_C652\/IMG_6115.jpg\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"394\" alt=\"IMG_6115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blogimages\/SantasStory_C652\/IMG_6115_thumb.jpg\" width=\"425\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The best Santa in the whole wide world!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blogimages\/SantasStory_C652\/IMG_6111.jpg\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"283\" alt=\"IMG_6111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blogimages\/SantasStory_C652\/IMG_6111_thumb.jpg\" width=\"425\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>He even let Noelle tug his beard!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blogimages\/SantasStory_C652\/IMG_6116.jpg\" atomicselection=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"539\" alt=\"IMG_6116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blogimages\/SantasStory_C652\/IMG_6116_thumb.jpg\" width=\"425\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and was so happy to show off his bright red suspenders.&nbsp; But the main reason he is so special is because he is so real.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know Santa&#8217;s name is Carl?&nbsp; His wife of 53 years is in Hospice care right now.&nbsp; He asked us to pray for her; her name is Margie.&nbsp; He was encouraging us in our marriage and jokingly said, &#8220;I married five women and should have divorced three of them.&#8221;&nbsp; He explained that through life we grow and change, and it&#8217;s important to journey together and never give up!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>He&nbsp;is probably the kindest soul I have ever met.&nbsp;&nbsp;It&#8217;s amazing to me that while he is in the midst of one of the scariest trials&nbsp;of life, he is&nbsp;spending&nbsp;time bringing happiness and blessings to us.&nbsp; May we all have such grace and courage!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The best Santa in the whole wide world!&nbsp; He even let Noelle tug his beard! &#8230;and was so happy to show off his bright red suspenders.&nbsp; But the main reason he is so special is because he is so real. Did you know Santa&#8217;s name is Carl?&nbsp; His wife of 53 years is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}