{"id":15776,"date":"2016-12-24T12:40:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T20:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=15776"},"modified":"2016-12-24T12:42:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T20:42:19","slug":"wheres-santa-norad-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2016\/12\/24\/wheres-santa-norad-knows\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Santa?? NORAD Knows!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Want to know where Santa Claus is RIGHT NOW? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noradsanta.org\/\">Track his whereabouts in real time<\/a> through North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)!<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15778\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Santa-NORAD.jpg\" alt=\"santa-norad\" \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/32021\/why-did-norad-start-tracking-santa\">Wait, why does\u00a0NORAD track\u00a0Santa<\/a>?! In short, because of a TYPO.<\/strong><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11714\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Santa-ad.jpg\" alt=\"Santa ad\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;a local newspaper ran a Sears Roebuck ad inviting kids to contact Santa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey Kiddies!\u201d the ad read. \u201cCall me on my private phone and I will talk to you personally any time day or night.\u201d The ad listed Santa\u2019s direct line, but the number in the copy was off by a digit. Instead of connecting to the special line Sears set up with a Santa impersonator, kids wound up calling a secret air defense emergency number.<\/p>\n<p>After a few more Santa-related calls, Shoup pulled a few airmen aside and gave them a special assignment. They would answer the phone and give callers\u2014barring the Pentagon, we assume\u2014Santa\u2019s current location as they \u201ctracked\u201d him on their radar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>That was 1955!!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/santatracker.google.com\/#tracker\">Google also tracks Santa<\/a>!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Or, go old school, and CALL:\u00a01-877-HI-NORAD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Have a great Christmas Eve, everyone!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to know where Santa Claus is RIGHT NOW? Track his whereabouts in real time through North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)! Wait, why does\u00a0NORAD track\u00a0Santa?! In short, because of a TYPO. &nbsp; &#8230;a local newspaper ran a Sears Roebuck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun","category-holidays","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15780,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15776\/revisions\/15780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}