{"id":2854,"date":"2010-12-13T22:17:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T06:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2016-12-24T19:14:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T03:14:47","slug":"santas-little-helper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=2854","title":{"rendered":"Santa&#8217;s Little Helper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been told that Rosy looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everipedia.com\/Santa's_Little_Helper\/\" target=\"new\">Santa&#8217;s Little Helper<\/a> from the Simpsons. In light of this, the elf costume was more or less a necessity. (The portrait with Santa, on the other hand, was pure indulgence.)<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2010\/rosy-card.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px; margin-right:10px\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2010\/santa.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px; margin-left:10px\"><\/div>\n<p>As far as we&#8217;re concerned, this will be Rosy&#8217;s first real Christmas. Last year she was at the Humane Society during the holidays and, since she doesn&#8217;t speak English, the year before that is a big question mark. (And the year before <em>that<\/em>, she probably wasn&#8217;t born yet.) So far she&#8217;s been respectful of the tree and hasn&#8217;t attempted to unwrap any presents. Of course, that may be because she knows Santa is watching&#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/2010\/elf-toy-xmas2010.jpg\" style=\"margin-top:15px; margin-bottom:15px\"><\/div>\n<p>(Yes, I&#8217;ve bought a few Christmas presents for the dog. Is that so wrong?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been told that Rosy looks like Santa&#8217;s Little Helper from the Simpsons. In light of this, the elf costume was more or less a necessity. (The portrait with Santa, on the other hand, was pure indulgence.) As far as we&#8217;re concerned, this will be Rosy&#8217;s first real Christmas. Last year she was at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[54,18],"class_list":["post-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-christmas","tag-rosy","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11011,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions\/11011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}