{"id":412,"date":"2006-12-08T12:35:32","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T17:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=575"},"modified":"2006-12-08T12:35:32","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T17:35:32","slug":"scared-of-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Scared of Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all have one.\u00a0 A photo of ourselves as a child on\u00a0the big guy’s\u00a0lap.\u00a0 For some, it was what they’d been waiting for all year.\u00a0 They were finally in control.\u00a0 They had Santa’s undivided attention and the opportunity to\u00a0spill all of their wordly desires and then follow it up with a lie about how good they’d been all year.<\/p>\n

For others, words cannot describe the sheer terror they felt at being deserted by their parents and being plopped on a fat stranger’s lap with camera bulbs flashing all around.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, in this case, a picture tells 1000 words.<\/p>\n

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Make sure you pay attention to the Santas<\/a>…Even now, at 31, some of them would frighten me.\u00a0 In my opinion, if your beard is made of a pile cotton balls that someone has glued together, you are not going to fool anyone into believing you are the real thing.\u00a0 Spend a few extra bucks and get the good beard.<\/p>\n

And just in case you were wondering…Some of us also have mall photos of ourselves with other<\/em> celebrities.\u00a0 And it doesn’t appear that I’m the least bit scared.\u00a0 I’m very proud of this one…mullet and all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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**Thanks to Caitlin for sharing the ‘Scared of Santa’ webpage\u00a0that almost made me pee my pants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all have one.\u00a0 A photo of ourselves as a child on\u00a0the big guy’s\u00a0lap.\u00a0 For some, it was what they’d been waiting for all year.\u00a0 They were finally in control.\u00a0 They had Santa’s undivided attention and the opportunity to\u00a0spill all of their wordly desires and then follow it up with a lie about how good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[24,32,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}