{"id":2190,"date":"2004-12-14T15:15:11","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T20:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2015-12-17T12:08:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T17:08:44","slug":"one-of-the-problems-with-being-a-precocious-7-year-old-like-my-nephew-cashel-er-for-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2190","title":{"rendered":"One of the problems with being a precocious 7-year-old (like my nephew Cashel for example)"},"content":{"rendered":"

… is that you can’t just blindly “believe” in Santa Claus. You have to justify it scientifically<\/i>. You have uncomfortable questions <\/i>about the feasability of Santa’s one-night journey. How does it work<\/i>? How can it be explained <\/i>using the laws of physics? And so it causes you to say to your mother such things as:<\/p>\n

“So Santa’s sleigh can go at the speed of light, I bet.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… is that you can’t just blindly “believe” in Santa Claus. You have to justify it scientifically. You have uncomfortable questions about the feasability of Santa’s one-night journey. How does it work? How can it be explained using the laws … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111260,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions\/111260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}