{"id":545,"date":"2012-12-17T09:10:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2012-12-17T09:10:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:10:33","slug":"hiding-the-presents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Hiding the Presents"},"content":{"rendered":"      <p>With five kids running around a smallish house, there are blessed few places to stash a super-secret Christmas gift that I want to have as a surprise on Christmas morning. Forever I\u2019ve just had to tell the kids, \u201cIf you want a surprise, then stay out of my bedroom closet from November 15<sup>th<\/sup> on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then last year my brother-in-law and his bride moved around the corner from us. Boom. Instant Christmas hiding places. They\u2019re off-site, and they have a room that the kids simply would never go into, even if they happened to be visiting their aunt and uncle. Problem solved.<\/p>\n<p>I think.<\/p>\n<p>I was listening to the radio and listening to some people on a call-in show tell where they hide the presents. One lady said she has a secret closet behind the toilet in her master bathroom. That\u2019d be nice. I think someone said something about old diaper boxes. But one lady had the most ingenious idea ever:<\/p>\n<p>Hide the presents under the piles of dirty clothes on the kids\u2019 bedroom floor.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll never find them there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n      <div data-chorus-discovery data-url=\"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=545\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With five kids running around a smallish house, there are blessed few places to stash a super-secret Christmas gift that I want to have as a surprise on Christmas morning. Forever I\u2019ve just had to tell the kids, \u201cIf you want a surprise, then stay out of my bedroom closet from November 15th on.\u201d Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[303],"tags":[316,315,22],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-2","tag-christmas-parenting","tag-hiding-presents","tag-housework"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2OUjT-8N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}