{"id":493,"date":"2012-12-09T19:33:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T18:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"2012-12-09T19:33:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T18:33:35","slug":"ben-meets-father-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/09\/ben-meets-father-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Meets Father Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we took Ben and Aaron to Trago Mills to go on the Santa Express to see Father Christmas. \u00a0We boarded the train and we were taken to Santa&#8217;s Grotto after about 5-10 minutes journey time, which was out amongst the woods beside Trago. \u00a0When we got there we heard Father Christmas say &#8216;Ho Ho Ho&#8217;, at which point Ben got very excited and started jumping up and down with a huge grin on his face! \u00a0The grotto was all decorated with lovely bright Christmas lights and miniature houses etc and so we went in (guided by an Elf) to find Father Christmas all ready to meet the children. \u00a0All the children went up to the front and he asked them individually what they wanted. \u00a0When he asked Ben, he said &#8216;Doggy Doo&#8217; to which Father Christmas replied &#8216;I will have to look that up&#8217;. \u00a0After he had spoken to them for a bit, each child went up and got a present (do did Aaron) and we managed to take a picture of Ben and Father Christmas on the way back on to the train.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_494\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/saller.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-494\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-494\" title=\"Ben and Father Christmas\" src=\"http:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/saller.jpg\" alt=\"Ben and Father Christmas\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/saller.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/saller-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben and Father Christmas<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we took Ben and Aaron to Trago Mills to go on the Santa Express to see Father Christmas. \u00a0We boarded the train and we were taken to Santa&#8217;s Grotto after about 5-10 minutes journey time, which was out amongst the woods beside Trago. \u00a0When we got there we heard Father Christmas say &#8216;Ho Ho [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[262,11],"tags":[469,212,264,213,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensblog.sgtworld.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}