{"id":10083,"date":"2017-11-20T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/?p=10083"},"modified":"2017-11-19T21:52:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T02:52:24","slug":"the-holidays-are-upon-us-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/the-holidays-are-upon-us-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holidays are Upon Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/35Days.png\" alt=\"35 Days Until Christmas\" width=\"450\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10084\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/35Days.png 937w, http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/35Days-300x133.png 300w, http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/35Days-768x341.png 768w, http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/35Days-220x98.png 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<p>It&#8217;s the best time of the year?the holiday season!<\/p>\n<p>In a mere 5 weeks, Santa will be making his yearly trip around the world. This is a particularly busy time here at <em>northpole.com<\/em> as we get ready for the big day, and I?m sure all of you are working on your Christmas preparations as well. I do hope that you and your family will come visit our site regularly during the holidays. Besides all of the great stuff elsewhere on the site [such as <a href=\"\/CraftCottage\/\">lovely crafts<\/a>, <a href=\"\/Kitchen\/Cookbook\/\">delicious recipes<\/a>, <a href=\"\/Mailroom\/\">letters to Santa<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/GiftShop\/\">gift ideas<\/a>], we will be bringing you fun, festive content here on the Elf Blog every single day between now and Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>If you love <a href=\"\/blog\/category\/events-and-activities\/\">holiday events<\/a>, are wondering where <a href=\"\/blog\/category\/raymond\/\">Raymond the reindeer<\/a> travelled to this year, or simply need a daily dose of Christmas joy, the Elf Blog has you covered. All of us elves look forward to spending the holiday season with you and yours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the best time of the year?the holiday season! In a mere 5 weeks, Santa will be making his yearly trip around the world. This is a particularly busy time here at northpole.com as we get ready for the big day, and I?m sure all of you are working on your Christmas preparations as well.&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/the-holidays-are-upon-us-2017\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northpole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10089,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10083\/revisions\/10089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northpole.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}