{"id":7896,"date":"2017-12-23T10:50:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=7896"},"modified":"2017-12-23T10:51:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:51:26","slug":"kids-believe-santa-claus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2017\/12\/kids-believe-santa-claus.html","title":{"rendered":"Do your kids believe in Santa Claus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7897\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/533\/2017\/12\/santa-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.315aw.afrc.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/633123\/santa-claus-comes-to-town-on-a-charleston-c-17\/\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"><\/p>\n<p>Really, this is just an invitation for reader comments.<\/p>\n<p>At what age, if you have kids, did they stop believing in Santa Claus?\u00a0 How did they come to this conclusion?\u00a0 And, whether or not you have personal experiences, what do you think is the \u201cright age\u201d for kids to abandon Santa and understand\u00a0that Christmas is not about a magical being giving presents?<\/p>\n<p>Because, sure, it\u2019s fun to use a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2017\/12\/six-day-war-50-years-ago-get.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">deliberately provocative post title<\/a> to get people talking about Palestinians and Israel, but let\u2019s talk about something else today.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Image:\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.315aw.afrc.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/633123\/santa-claus-comes-to-town-on-a-charleston-c-17\/<\/p>\n<p>Because I love the fact that military pictures are in the public domain!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, this is just an invitation for reader comments. 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