{"id":1202,"date":"2009-10-22T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T16:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2016-05-27T13:39:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T19:39:53","slug":"dear-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/22\/dear-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Dear Santa, <\/p>\n<p>I know these are tough economic times with unemployment nearing 10%,   Wall  Street bonuses less than $5 million (each) this Christmas &#8211; and<span> <\/span>&#8211; well,   Santa, you know all this already. But I  need, yes need, more climbing gear. I knew you would understand<span> with all those chimneys out there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1362\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/santaclimbing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"135\" \/><\/span>Santa, I am going back to the big mountains over the next couple of years and  I gave away some of my old gear to the Sherpas on my last Everest trip so\u00a0<span>I<\/span> need to replace them. I have tried to be good  this year, except for watching too much cable news programs &#8211; never could figure  out those guys so I switched to the real Housewives &#8211; they somehow seemed more in  touch. Sorry Santa, I digress.<\/p>\n<p>I need some boots, a new sleeping bag and that new cool SPOT thing. Also some  magazines would be nice. Anyway, if you could have one of your Elves click on  this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/climbing\/gearreviews.php\">link<\/a>, she will find my list.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Santa and<\/p>\n<p>Sleigh on!<\/p>\n<p>Alan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Santa, I know these are tough economic times with unemployment nearing 10%, Wall Street bonuses less than $5 million (each) this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}