{"id":32261,"date":"2010-12-17T11:45:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=32261"},"modified":"2010-12-17T11:45:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T16:45:22","slug":"worth-repeating-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/worth-repeating-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth repeating"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>U.S. Postal Service workers who handle letters addressed to Santa at the North Pole say more letters ask for basics &#8211; coats, socks and shoes &#8211; rather than Barbie dolls, video games and computers. At New York City&#8217;s main post office, Head Elf Pete Fontana and 22 staff elves will sort 2 million letters in Operation Santa, which connects needy children with &#8220;Secret Santas&#8221; who answer their wishes.<\/p>\n<p>Fontana, a customer relations coordinator for the Postal Service, has been head elf for 15 years. &#8220;The need is greater this year than I&#8217;ve ever seen it,&#8221; he says. &#8220;One little girl didn&#8217;t want anything for herself. She wanted a winter coat for her mother.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cesar, 7, wrote for himself and his baby sister. &#8220;This year my mom don&#8217;t have much money to spend on Christmas gifts so I&#8217;m writing to you,&#8221; Cesar told Santa. &#8220;It would make us very happy if you and your elves would bring us toys and clothes.&#8221; One mom sent a turn-off notice from the electric company, Fontana says.<\/p>\n<p>Melanney, 9, asked Santa for a coat and boots. &#8220;I have been a very good girl this year,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>USA Today via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/what-bernie-said-part-ii66016\">Truthout<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Postal Service workers who handle letters addressed to Santa at the North Pole say more letters ask for basics &#8211; coats, socks and shoes &#8211; rather than Barbie dolls, video games and computers. At New York City&#8217;s main post office, Head Elf Pete Fontana and 22 staff elves will sort 2 million letters in &#8230; <a title=\"Worth repeating\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/worth-repeating-9\/\" aria-label=\"More on Worth repeating\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}