{"id":11468,"date":"2025-12-29T23:26:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=11468"},"modified":"2025-12-29T23:26:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:26:57","slug":"the-little-boy-had-a-cunning-plan-to-get-his-christmas-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=11468","title":{"rendered":"The Little Boy Had A Cunning Plan To Get His Christmas Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"103\" data-end=\"234\">His mother said she couldn\u2019t afford a new bike but suggested he write to Jesus, promising to be good\u2014maybe then Jesus would help.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"236\" data-end=\"451\">The boy sat down and wrote:<br data-start=\"263\" data-end=\"266\" \/><em data-start=\"266\" data-end=\"316\">\u201cDear Jesus, I promise to be good for one year\u2026\u201d<\/em><br data-start=\"316\" data-end=\"319\" \/>He scratched it out. <em data-start=\"340\" data-end=\"354\">\u201cOne month.\u201d<\/em><br data-start=\"354\" data-end=\"357\" \/>Still unhappy, he changed it to <em data-start=\"389\" data-end=\"402\">\u201cOne week.\u201d<\/em> Frustrated, he tore it up and went for a walk.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"453\" data-end=\"599\">Passing the church, he saw the nativity scene. When no one was watching, he grabbed the figure of Mary, tucked her under his coat, and ran home.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"601\" data-end=\"691\">Then he wrote a new letter:<br data-start=\"628\" data-end=\"631\" \/><em data-start=\"631\" data-end=\"689\">\u201cDear Jesus, if you ever want to see your mother again\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; His mother said she couldn\u2019t afford a new bike but suggested he write to Jesus, promising to be good\u2014maybe then Jesus would help. The boy sat down and wrote:\u201cDear Jesus, I promise to be good for one year\u2026\u201dHe scratched it out. \u201cOne month.\u201dStill unhappy, he changed it to \u201cOne week.\u201d Frustrated, he tore it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11470,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468\/revisions\/11470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}