{"id":1440,"date":"2008-12-10T10:09:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T15:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2009-12-02T19:16:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T00:16:55","slug":"best-santa-social-media-mash-up-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/12\/10\/best-santa-social-media-mash-up-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Santa-social media mash-up EVER!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A colleague of mine (Hi Dawna!) tipped me off to this at a Christmas party the other day.  If you are Canadian and have kids who still believe in the wonder of Santa, you *must* visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/portablenorthpole.sympatico.msn.ca\/home\">Portable North Pole<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You answer a few questions like how old is your child, first name, gender, province of residence and a few others, and then upload a photo of your child (optional, but worth it!)  Santa will e-mail them a personalized video greeting.  Tristan and Simon were open-mouthed with wonder, especially when Santa opened his big book and said, &#8220;Hmmm, Tristan, let me see.  Oh yes, here you are!&#8221; and turned his book to show Tristan&#8217;s name and a photo of him.  Priceless at any cost, but totally free!  (We had extra fun with ours because the photos I uploaded came from our trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/07\/30\/lake-placid-vacation-part-four-home-by-way-of-the-north-pole\/\">North Pole, New York<\/a> earlier this year.  Upped the believability factor by 10, IMHO!)<\/p>\n<p>I sometimes have trouble finding personalized mass-produced trinkets with Tristan, Simon and Lucas written on them (dang, shoulda named them Ryan, Matthew and Michael!) but all three names were in the drop-down menu on Portable Santa.  I&#8217;m highly impressed!<\/p>\n<p>Give it a try, your kids will LOVE it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A colleague of mine (Hi Dawna!) tipped me off to this at a Christmas party the other day. If you are Canadian and have kids who still believe in the wonder of Santa, you *must* visit the Portable North Pole. You answer a few questions like how old is your child, first name, gender, province &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/12\/10\/best-santa-social-media-mash-up-ever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Santa-social media mash-up EVER!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happy-holidays","category-how-i-love-the-interwebs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3314,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/3314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}