{"id":108,"date":"2011-11-13T22:29:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T22:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2011-11-13T22:29:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T22:29:10","slug":"a-message-from-father-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/11\/a-message-from-father-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A message from Father Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">Its Christmas Eve<br \/>\nAnd I can hardly breeve<br \/>\nI been on the job all night<br \/>\nDelivering presents big and small<br \/>\nAround the skies all white<br \/>\n<!--more-->My toes are sore<br \/>\nMy legs are sore<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a chafed and sooty mess<br \/>\nMy face is worn<br \/>\nMy shirt is torn<br \/>\nAnd I now have to confess<\/p>\n<p>That despite the years<br \/>\nof making toys<br \/>\nWith the elves at the North Pole<br \/>\nAnd travelling, around the streets<br \/>\nWhich is ofcourse my role<br \/>\nI wish sometimes that I could know<br \/>\nin advance that the chimney stack<br \/>\nis bricked up in the Living Room<br \/>\nCos its so hard, to back track<\/p>\n<p>Imagine for a moment<br \/>\nI&#8217;m down, but I can&#8217;t get through<br \/>\nSo I have to try to shimmy back<br \/>\nWhich is blooming hard to do<br \/>\nAnd as I eat each mince pie<br \/>\nand sup on sherry sweet<br \/>\nI find it harder to get down<br \/>\nor up,I&#8217;m just dead meat!<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m asking all you boys and girls<br \/>\nTo get your parents to<br \/>\nPut a sign up on the chimney<br \/>\nTo tell me what to do<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its Christmas Eve And I can hardly breeve I been on the job all night Delivering presents big and small Around the skies all white<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-stories","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}