{"id":597,"date":"2009-01-17T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=597"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:57:34","slug":"dear-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/dear-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Santa,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a very good girl so far this year. Well, I mean, there was that homework assignment I didn\u2019t help my kid with in time. And, um, I kinda sorta strayed away from my diet. Once. Okay, twice. Anyhoo.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16030 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20090117_arabiannights.jpg\" alt=\"A box set of THE ARABIAN NIGHTS in 3 volumes, which are white with blue print and line artwork.\" width=\"324\" height=\"348\">Down below, I asked for 6 more hours in a day and the ability to not to have to sleep. That\u2019s my number one and number two wishes for Christmas. You\u2019re magic. You can do that.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I must have this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/9780141012681\/Arabian-Nights-Volume-Gift-Set-0141012684\/plp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Penguin Classics <em>The Arabian Nights<\/em> gift set<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, now, I know that you\u2019ll have to make a stop in England to get it, but you\u2019re going there first anyway, right? Just pick it up for me while you\u2019re there filling stockings and such.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I KNOW it\u2019s paper!<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s that? Oh. Well, I DO adore e-books, Santa. But I also adore paper books. Just not \u2026 mass market paperbacks. I\u2019d much rather read an e-book than a mass market paperback.<\/p>\n<p>And look at it. Isn\u2019t it GORGEOUS???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a very good girl so far this year. Well, I mean, there was that homework assignment I didn\u2019t help my kid with in time. And, um, I kinda sorta strayed away from my diet. Once. Okay, twice. Anyhoo. Down below, I asked for 6 more hours in a day and the ability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[531],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17005,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/17005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}