{"id":822,"date":"2012-12-14T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/14\/curious-case-of-secret-santa-strikes-back"},"modified":"2012-12-14T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:43:00","slug":"curious-case-of-secret-santa-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"Secret Santa shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/0168c-secret.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/0168c-secret.jpg?w=300\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><b>you guys!! the tides have turned in this curious case! <\/b>after a no holds barred, all out scavenger hunt looking for one of the gifts, a few &#8220;helpers&#8221; came out of the woodwork that may have given insight as to who the secret santa perp is! but then the next few gifts thew me off and i&#8217;m completely stumped.\u00a0and as there are merely days (five) left in this wild chase, i hope that when the time comes to call out my hopefully-not-so-secret santa, i will be fully convinced..<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">here are the latest:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><b>+a basketball ornament with a scavenger hunt attached<\/b>: the riddle read something like &#8220;christmas trees love these and you + your hubby love it even more!&#8221; it took up a good hour of a thursday eve scouring every christmas tree in the building, in addition to every other room that had any potential of a christmas garland. finally, towards the end, the aforementioned\u00a0discussant\u00a0(perhaps masquerader) joined and <i>found<\/i>\u00a0said basketball ornament gift. that one is fishy from a mile away!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><b>+three-pack of wonderful smelling hand sanitizer: <\/b>this one wasn&#8217;t too obtuse. a lot of people are sick at the moment and james was one of em. obviously a girl&#8217;s got to keep her sani handy. nailed it, secret santa. nailed it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><b>+peanut brittle: <\/b>to which i say &#8220;well played s.s.&#8221; pink paper with a highly encouraging note! you&#8217;re good. girly? i&#8217;d say so! in addition, james has publicly announced that if it&#8217;s not a girl, he&#8217;s got some strong words for my man secret santa \ud83d\ude42 husband duty he calls it. regardless, thank you for the thoughtfulness s.s.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><b>the verdict:\u00a0<\/b>i simply have <i>noooo <\/i>clue!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>you guys!! the tides have turned in this curious case! after a no holds barred, all out scavenger hunt looking for one of the gifts, a few &#8220;helpers&#8221; came out of the woodwork that may have given insight as to who the secret santa perp is! but then the next few gifts thew me off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}