{"id":14576,"date":"2013-12-04T22:20:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T06:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14576"},"modified":"2013-12-04T22:20:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T06:20:50","slug":"california-letters-to-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-letters-to-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"California Letters to Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/santale.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are millions of letters mailed to Santa Claus at the North Pole each year. What happens to those special messages from boys &amp; girls all over the world? \u00a0In the United States the U.S. Postal Service has a 101-year old program, <em>Letters to Santa<\/em>, in which postal &#8220;elves&#8221; go through letters and sort out those expressing serious need. You can participate by adopting letters and supplying items. In California there are about half a dozen post offices in the program. If you would like to learn more, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/santa-letters.html\">here is the list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fact: \u00a0<\/strong>Hundreds of thousands of children of all ages send letters to &#8220;Santa Claus, North Pole, Alaska.&#8221; Unless these letters contain a complete Alaska address, they remain in the area they were mailed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Santa:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>What if my house has no chimney?<\/em><br \/>\nAnswer: If your home does not have a chimney, Santa will use some of his special magic dust to make a chimney appear. Once he is finished and back up the chimney, it will automatically disappear.<\/li>\n<li><em>How will you find me if we are visiting someone and not at our home on Christmas Eve?<\/em><br \/>\nSanta will use his magical kid locator. Once he locates a child who is at a different address or location the sleigh will automatically take Santa to the new location.<\/li>\n<li><em>Does Santa really read every letter?<\/em><br \/>\nAbsolutely, Santa takes every letter he gets, and he sits down next to his fireplace and reads each and every one of them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are millions of letters mailed to Santa Claus at the North Pole each year. What happens to those special messages from boys &amp; girls all over the world? \u00a0In the United States the U.S. Postal Service has a 101-year old program, Letters to Santa, in which postal &#8220;elves&#8221; go through letters and sort out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14576"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}