{"id":26200,"date":"2022-12-24T11:39:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T19:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=26200"},"modified":"2023-02-20T11:57:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T19:57:57","slug":"this-is-how-you-find-where-santa-claus-is-on-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2022\/12\/24\/this-is-how-you-find-where-santa-claus-is-on-christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how you find where Santa Claus is on Christmas Eve!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Santa-NORAD.jpg\" alt=\"santa-norad\" class=\"wp-image-15778\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/32021\/why-did-norad-start-tracking-santa\">Wait, why does&nbsp;NORAD track&nbsp;Santa<\/a>?! In short, because of a TYPO.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"502\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Santa-ad-e1513882800776.jpg\" alt=\"Santa ad\" class=\"wp-image-11714\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8230;a local newspaper ran a Sears Roebuck ad inviting kids to contact Santa. \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. 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>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>That was 1955!!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"317\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-21-at-10.59.09-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18679\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/santatracker.google.com\/#tracker\">Google also tracks Santa<\/a>!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Or, go old school, and CALL this number:&nbsp;1-877-HI-NORAD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\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&nbsp;NORAD track&nbsp;Santa?! In short, because of a TYPO. &#8230;a local newspaper ran a Sears Roebuck ad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-26200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","tag-merry-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26200","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=26200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26201,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26200\/revisions\/26201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}