{"id":1255,"date":"2014-12-22T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2019-12-22T10:45:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T15:45:11","slug":"birth-of-the-ermine-avenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/22\/birth-of-the-ermine-avenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of the Ermine Avenger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forecast is for possible thunder on Christmas Eve. Donner and Blitzen may be dodging actual thunder and lightning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me being me, I am now thinking about a story about what would happen if Santa&#8217;s sleigh got hit by lightning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe a new superhero would be created. BIRTH OF THE ERMINE AVENGER. Or maybe the result would be a Santa hybrid: half-man, half ermine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least being a superhero would give Santa something to do the other 364 days of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This probably means another year with coal in my stocking, doesn&#8217;t it, Santa?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I was <em>so<\/em> close. 363 days of being good, down the tubes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forecast is for possible thunder on Christmas Eve. Donner and Blitzen may be dodging actual thunder and lightning. Me being me, I am now thinking about a story about what would happen if Santa&#8217;s sleigh got hit by lightning. Maybe a new superhero would be created. BIRTH OF THE ERMINE AVENGER. Or maybe the result &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/22\/birth-of-the-ermine-avenger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Birth of the Ermine Avenger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}