{"id":1624,"date":"2003-08-18T15:53:28","date_gmt":"2003-08-19T05:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/18\/a-little-bit-of-magic\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T14:03:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:03:46","slug":"a-little-bit-of-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/18\/a-little-bit-of-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"A little bit of magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got a question that only an elf could answer? If you&#8217;re in Minneapolis, stop by and ask <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.netscape.cnn.com\/news\/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1110&amp;idq=\/ff\/story\/0001%2F20030818%2F130649665.htm&amp;sc=1110&amp;photoid=20030727NY108\" title=\"Minneapolis Elf Has All the Right Answers\">Mr.\u00a0Little Guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Four-year-old Shira Rabkin wanted to ask just the right questions, so she thought long and hard.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Dear Mr.\u00a0Little Guy,&#8221; she finally scrawled in big letters across a sheet of paper. &#8220;Do you like mints?&#8221; After some more pondering, she added, &#8220;and going to Camp Snoopy? Love, Shira.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Mr.\u00a0Little Guy was nowhere in sight this early August evening, so Shira stuffed her letter behind his door at the base of a hollowed out ash tree. It&#8217;s always open, and always full &#8211; of letters, pens, flowers and coins.<\/p>\n<p>  The elusive elf has enchanted Twin Citians ever since the 6-inch wooden door appeared eight years ago, just off a walking path around popular Lake Harriet. Double takes led to messages, and messages to answers &#8211; and somehow Mr.\u00a0Little Guy keeps up, responding to the queries in typed notes half the size of business cards.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via Prairie)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elusive elf has enchanted Twin Citians ever since the 6-inch wooden door appeared eight years ago, just off a walking path around popular Lake Harriet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}