One Christmas morning, my father attempted to describe Santa as Solid Snake.<\/p>\n
This is that story.<\/p>\n
“Dad, does Santa really go house to house delivering toys?”
\n“He does indeed; why just last night this Christmas Eve, I heard him.”
\n“What? No!”
\n“Yeah, I was sitting here watching TV after you’d gone to bed, and I thought I heard jingling coming from the roof, like bells on a reindeer. I turned off the TV, and the sound stopped. I unmuted it, and the sound returned! I turned it off and on one more time and then I was sure of it! I heard a jingling, but only when the TV was on! It was Santa, trying to use the sound of the TV to muffle the sounds of him infiltrating our household!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One Christmas morning, my father attempted to describe Santa as Solid Snake. This is that story. “Dad, does Santa really go house to house delivering toys?” “He does indeed; why just last night this Christmas Eve, I heard him.” “What? No!” “Yeah, I was sitting here watching TV after you’d gone to bed, and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-observation","count-0","even alt","author-admin","last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cwknight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cwknight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cwknight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwknight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwknight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwknight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwknight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cwknight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwknight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cwknight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}