{"id":10031,"date":"2010-12-17T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/i-learned-what-an-elf-on-a-shelf-is-last-night\/"},"modified":"2021-07-20T23:04:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T23:04:41","slug":"i-learned-what-an-elf-on-a-shelf-is-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/i-learned-what-an-elf-on-a-shelf-is-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10031 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/i-learned-what-an-elf-on-a-shelf-is-last-night\/attachment\/10032\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/tumblr_ldkxie2ajO1qzozgbo1_500.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/tumblr_ldkxie2ajO1qzozgbo1_500.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/tumblr_ldkxie2ajO1qzozgbo1_500.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/tumblr_ldkxie2ajO1qzozgbo1_500.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I learned what an<em> &ldquo;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbe.com\/candystore\/catalog\/Elf-on-a-Shelf-A-Chrismas-Tradition-p-16606.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Elf on a Shelf<\/a>&rdquo; <\/em>is last night. I&rsquo;ve never heard of it before.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Elf on a Shelf watches the children&rsquo;s behavior and reports it back  to Santa each night. By morning the Elf returns to its assigned home and  hides in a different location, allowing the children to play a  delightful hide-and-seek game.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When the kids are asleep, parents move the thing to different spots every night.<\/p>\n<p>Okay. Traditions are cool. But it seems to me that having a  guillotine next to the Christmas tree would be slightly less creepy.<\/p>\n<p><em>More <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images?um=1&amp;hl=en&amp;safe=active&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&amp;biw=1232&amp;bih=672&amp;tbs=isch%3A1&amp;sa=1&amp;q=%22Elf+on+a+Shelf%22&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=\" rel=\"noopener\">Elf on the Shelf images here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned what an &ldquo;Elf on a Shelf&rdquo; is last night. I&rsquo;ve never heard of it before. The Elf on a Shelf watches the children&rsquo;s behavior and reports it back to Santa each night. By morning the Elf returns to its assigned home and hides in a different location, allowing the children to play a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-10031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10033,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10031\/revisions\/10033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}