{"id":234,"date":"2012-12-23T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/?p=234"},"modified":"2012-12-23T07:08:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T13:08:24","slug":"letters-to-santa-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/2012\/12\/23\/letters-to-santa-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to Santa 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that it is the 100 year anniversary of the Letters to Santa program started by the US Postal Service?<\/p>\n

This program helps Santa’s elves respond to the voluminous letters written to Santa every year.\u00a0 These letters don’t always ask for toys or frivolous items.\u00a0 Letters to Santa often ask for things that many of us take for granted.\u00a0 This program and its volunteers work hard to help make Christmas wishes come true. Learn more about the program here on the US Postal Service website.<\/a>\u00a0 You can also check out this cute video about the program –\u00a0\u00a0video link.<\/a><\/p>\n

To commemorate this important program’s anniversary, this year’s Christmas stamps depict Santa in his sleigh in a scene that encompasses 4 stamps.\u00a0 This whimsical scene was also\u00a0fashioned into an adorable Christmas ornament.\u00a0 The ornament is 3D metal with 24k gold detailing.\u00a0 And it’s Made in the USA! (How often do you find ornaments made right\u00a0here in the USA?)<\/em><\/p>\n

I didn’t even know about these ornaments\u00a0until I was standing in line at the\u00a0Post Office\u00a0several days ago, but when I saw the ornament I had to have one.\u00a0 It adds whimsy, sparkle, and the magic of Santa to the tree.\u00a0 You can get the ornaments at your local Post Office or order one online.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Letters to Santa commemorative 100th anniversary ornament from the US Postal Service.<\/p><\/div>\n

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No, the Post Office didn’t pay me to advertise their ornament.\u00a0 I just love this ornament and wanted to share in case someone else is an ornament collector.\u00a0 Even though I’m not a kid, I still love the idea of Santa Claus and the magic, mystery, and spirit of giving that the legend of Santa Claus brings to the Christmas season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know that it is the 100 year anniversary of the Letters to Santa program started by the US Postal Service? This program helps Santa’s elves respond to the voluminous letters written to Santa every year.\u00a0 These letters don’t always ask for toys or frivolous items.\u00a0 Letters to Santa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,80,89,90],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farmlife","tag-christmas","tag-decorations","tag-santa","tag-wishes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lettertosanta2012.jpg?fit=1464%2C1316&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2wWew-3M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarisstarfarm.com\/adventures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}