{"id":169,"date":"2010-12-12T09:31:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T09:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/2010\/12\/the-first-santa-epilogue.html"},"modified":"2010-12-12T09:31:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T09:31:30","slug":"the-first-santa-epilogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2010\/12\/the-first-santa-epilogue.html","title":{"rendered":"The First Santa &#8211; Epilogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;line-height: 18px\"><\/p>\n<div><i><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/dream_gates\/noaidi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"noaidi.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/80\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/12\/noaidi-thumb-350x488-20072.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"488\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span>Dear James:<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Whoever gives in a spirit of love and joy on this special night has Santa inside him, or her.<br \/>When Mommy and Daddy were stuffing your stocking, Santa was there with them.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Now, I know that when you&#8217;ve seen something with your eyes it can be hard to believe a different thing unless you can see that with your eyes too.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>So I want you to know this.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>In a great museum in Europe there is a drum made of reindeer skin. On it is an old, old painting of a man flying through the sky on a sleigh pulled by reindeer. I&#8217;m not saying this is Santa&#8217;s drum. I think his drum is too lively to ever get caught and stuck in a museum. I am saying that whoever painted and used that drum knew how you make flying reindeer, and how you get down chimneys.<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear James: Whoever gives in a spirit of love and joy on this special night has Santa inside him, or her.When Mommy and Daddy were stuffing your stocking, Santa was there with them. Now, I know that when you&#8217;ve seen something with your eyes it can be hard to believe a different thing unless you&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,22,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power-animals","category-shamanic-dreaming","category-shamanism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The First Santa - Epilogue - Dream Gates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2010\/12\/the-first-santa-epilogue.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The First Santa - Epilogue - Dream Gates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dear James: Whoever gives in a spirit of love and joy on this special night has Santa inside him, or her.When Mommy and Daddy were stuffing your stocking, Santa was there with them. 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