{"id":903,"date":"2013-12-24T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T00:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=903"},"modified":"2014-10-22T00:05:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T00:05:59","slug":"christmas-eve-at-the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/christmas-eve-at-the-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve at the Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody was getting drowsy, drinking coffee to keep awake,<br \/>\nPlanning to get kebabs and chips, eating biscuits to beat the band,<br \/>\nIdly scanning the CCTV when all of a sudden a shape was seen&#8230;<br \/>\nIt looked like reindeer and a sleigh, with a waving hand&#8230;<br \/>\nThere was no Garda helicopter, in a flash the image was gone&#8230;<br \/>\nIt looked like Santa was scouting about&#8230;<br \/>\nTo see all the good kids were in bed at home&#8230;<br \/>\nNot on the streets running about.<br \/>\nSecurity swear they saw him, have a photo it to prove&#8230;<br \/>\nOthers think too much caffeine they had drank&#8230;<br \/>\nEither way, enjoy your Christmas&#8230;<br \/>\nFor all you have, little or much, for it God let you thank!!!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2860\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2860\" style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Santa-in-Tullamore.jpg\" alt=\"Santa seen in Tullamore\" width=\"1366\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-fullwp-image-2860\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa in Tullamore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody was getting drowsy, drinking coffee to keep awake, Planning to get kebabs and chips, eating biscuits to beat the band, Idly scanning the CCTV when all of a sudden a shape was seen&#8230; It looked like reindeer and a sleigh, with a waving hand&#8230; There was no Garda helicopter, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,89,54,315],"tags":[1106,358,572,2358],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-folklore-and-legend","category-funny-poems","category-ireland","category-tullamore","tag-childrens-poetry","tag-christmas","tag-santa-claus","tag-tullamore","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-ez","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":236,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/seeing-beneath-the-surface-at-tullamores-scratch-gallery\/","url_meta":{"origin":903,"position":0},"title":"Seeing Beneath the Surface at Tullamore&#8217;s &#8220;SCRATCH&#8221; Gallery","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"29th November 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Tullamore's latest artistic endeavor is the brainchild of self proclaimed blow in Richard Brennan, the SCRATCH Gallery in Tullamore Library. 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