{"id":50271,"date":"2017-12-24T21:47:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T05:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=50271"},"modified":"2017-12-24T21:47:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T05:47:16","slug":"norad-is-tracking-santa-again-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=50271","title":{"rendered":"NORAD Is Tracking Santa Again This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Springs, CO&#8230;NORAD started the tradition after a local store\u2019s advertisement for kids to call Santa on a special \u201chotline\u201d included a misprinted telephone number. Instead of reaching Mr. Kris Kringle, the number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief\u2019s operations \u201chotline.\u201d The Director of Operations, Colonel Harry Shoup, received the first \u201cSanta\u201d call and had his staff check radar data to see if there was any indication of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Indeed, there were signs of Santa, and children who called in were given an update on Santa\u2019s position. Thus, the tradition was born.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noradsanta.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/noradsanta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/noradsanta.jpg 640w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/noradsanta-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/noradsanta-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/noradsanta-570x570.jpg 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/noradsanta-30x30.jpg 30w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/noradsanta-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/noradsanta-500x500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lwo5pKT3PSk\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Springs, CO&#8230;NORAD started the tradition after a local store\u2019s advertisement for kids to call Santa on a special \u201chotline\u201d included a misprinted telephone number. Instead of reaching Mr. Kris Kringle, the number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief\u2019s operations \u201chotline.\u201d The Director of Operations, Colonel Harry Shoup, received the first \u201cSanta\u201d call and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,4,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-life-style","category-news","category-traffic-fire","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/noradsanta.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}