{"id":3446,"date":"2018-06-15T11:01:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T10:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rooftoppost.co.uk\/story-letters\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2018-08-03T18:26:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T17:26:22","slug":"about-father-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftoppost.co.uk\/story-letters\/about-father-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"About Father Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7433\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7433\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rooftoppost.co.uk\/free\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Santa-Claus-Painting-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Claus\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Claus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As there are millions of pages out there about Father Christmas, we thought that rather than use this one to tell you about the general myth of Santa, we&#8217;d use it to tell you about ours. That&#8217;s to say the Santa Claus we depict in our letters and other resources. We know you&#8217;ll all have your own family Father Christmas stories too, because that&#8217;s part of the wonderful magic of Christmas but we hope you find our thoughts on the magical man useful &#8211; and if you&#8217;re looking for ideas as to how to bring some fresh magic into your little one&#8217;s life, you can always blend them with yours.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Where does Santa live?<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7430\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7430 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rooftoppost.co.uk\/free\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/santas-house-north-pole-ny-leone-annabella-betts.jpg\" alt=\"Santa's House at the North Pole\" width=\"600\" height=\"433\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christmas House &#8211; Santa&#8217;s Home at the North Pole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Father Christmas lives in a magical house at the very top of the world &#8211; the North Pole. For anyone visiting him in Lapland, we tell children that his house is so magical it moves around from time to time, though it can only go where it&#8217;s snowy and cold. He lives with lots of helpers, including elves, fairies and all sorts of other magical folk.<\/p>\n<h4>Other Important Buildings Near Santa&#8217;s Home<\/h4>\n<p>As well his house, there are a handful of other buildings which are very important to Father Christmas.<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Christmas Tree Workshop<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>This is one of the places the elves like to go to make toys and it&#8217;s a workshop with a difference because it&#8217;s built into a giant, magical Christmas tree.<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Reindeer Stables<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>The reindeer stables are where Rudolph and the other reindeer live. It&#8217;s probably one of the most magical places of all.\u00a0 A great letter from Father Christmas for finding out more about the reindeer is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftoppost.co.uk\/story-letters\/before-christmas-letters\/santa-kitchen-full-of-reindeer\/\">A Kitchen Full of Reindeer<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s free to print out for your child.<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Iceberg Supermarket<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>This magical building doesn&#8217;t belong to Father Christmas but he goes there all the time. It&#8217;s a shopping mall inside an iceberg!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As there are millions of pages out there about Father Christmas, we thought that rather than use this one to tell you about the general myth of Santa, we&#8217;d use it to tell you about ours. That&#8217;s to say the Santa Claus we depict in our letters and other resources. We know you&#8217;ll all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftoppost.co.uk\/story-letters\/about-father-christmas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Father Christmas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-father-christmas-and-his-magical-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftoppost.co.uk\/story-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftoppost.co.uk\/story-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftoppost.co.uk\/story-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftoppost.co.uk\/story-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftoppost.co.uk\/story-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftoppost.co.uk\/story-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4109,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftoppost.co.uk\/story-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions\/4109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftoppost.co.uk\/story-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftoppost.co.uk\/story-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftoppost.co.uk\/story-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}