{"id":1406,"date":"2009-12-24T21:59:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T12:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-12-24\/1406"},"modified":"2009-12-24T21:59:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T12:59:44","slug":"all-ready-for-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-12-24\/1406","title":{"rendered":"All Ready for Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\nNOTE<\/b>: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 160 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 5600 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\nReady and Waiting<\/span>\nTea and Cookies for Santa\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 110 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 6400 —\nfull exif<\/a><\/span>\n“Please leave a letter.<\/span> Please don't use kanji.”<\/i><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Kanji<\/i> are the complex “Chinese characters” of Japanese writing,\nas opposed to the two simple phonetic Japanese alphabets that he uses\nmostly at this point.<\/p>\n\n

While wrapping presents this evening, I thought<\/span> of a great<\/span> response to\nwhen, inevitably, he'll hear from a classmate<\/span> that Santa is not real, that\nit's really the parents. I'll affect an air of grave concern, then in a low<\/span>\nvoice confide that Santa brings toys only to kids that have been good, and\nso parents secretly get up early to check, and if Santa didn't bring a toy,<\/span>\nthey feel bad for their kid, so they quickly put one. So that (snot-nosed\ninconsiderate jerk of a) friend must not have been good. Oh my! Don't\nmention it... don't make him feel bad.... don't tell anyone... <\/p>\n\n

....and so preserve a bit longer the magic that is Santa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kanji are the complex \"Chinese characters\" of Japanese writing, as opposed to the two simple phonetic Japanese alphabets that he uses mostly at this point.<\/p>

While wrapping presents this evening, I thought of a great response to when, inevitably, he'll hear from a classmate that Santa is not real, that it's really the parents. I'll affect an air of grave concern, then in a low voice confide that Santa brings toys only to kids that have been good, and so parents secretly get up early to check, and if Santa didn't bring a toy, they feel bad for their kid, [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}