{"id":22773,"date":"2019-12-24T01:01:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T09:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=22773"},"modified":"2019-12-24T07:54:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T15:54:46","slug":"follow-norad-or-google-to-find-out-where-santa-is-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2019\/12\/24\/follow-norad-or-google-to-find-out-where-santa-is-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow NORAD or Google to find out where Santa is RIGHT NOW!!"},"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 (aka 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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11714 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Santa-ad-e1513882800776.jpg\" alt=\"Santa ad\" width=\"502\" height=\"492\" \/>\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<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22774\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/NORAD-tracks-Santa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/NORAD-tracks-Santa.jpg 992w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/NORAD-tracks-Santa-620x640.jpg 620w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/NORAD-tracks-Santa-768x793.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"317\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18679\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-21-at-10.59.09-AM.png\" alt=\"\" \/>\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 this number:\u00a01-877-HI-NORAD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Have a great Christmas Eve, everyone!! Hope Santa is generous to you this year and you get everything you want!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/7R5qR7Tz4asrS\" width=\"480\" height=\"271\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 (aka NORAD)! Wait, why does\u00a0NORAD track\u00a0Santa?! In short, because of a TYPO. &nbsp; &#8230;a local newspaper ran a Sears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22773","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=22773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22775,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22773\/revisions\/22775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}