{"id":589,"date":"2008-12-18T06:29:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T06:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=589"},"modified":"2010-07-08T15:40:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T14:40:37","slug":"norad-tracks-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"NORAD Tracks Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">I know this isn&#8217;t strictly anything to do with Scouting, but it is fun! If you know or have young(ish) kids of your own or you are a 37 year old big kid (for example!), you may like to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noradsanta.org\" target=\"_blank\">NORAD Tracks Santa<\/a> web site on Christmas Eve. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"152\" alt=\"nts_logo08_download\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/nts-logo08-download.jpg\" width=\"375\" border=\"0\"> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The North American Aerospace Defense Command track Santa&#8217;s location at midnight in most time zones on Christmas morning. It&#8217;s a lot of fun and something to get you in the mood for Christmas!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">You can read a bit of the history <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NORAD_Tracks_Santa\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:300,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.noradsanta.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20211130133616\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.noradsanta.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.noradsanta.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 11:51:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 05:17:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-14 17:55:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-27 15:35:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-12 23:13:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-30 07:23:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-03 15:16:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-11 03:55:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-11 03:55:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:495,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/NORAD_Tracks_Santa&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260317024751\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/NORAD_Tracks_Santa&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 18:29:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 05:17:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-09 14:34:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-14 23:23:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-25 10:52:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-30 07:23:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-03 15:16:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-11 03:55:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-11 03:55:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this isn&#8217;t strictly anything to do with Scouting, but it is fun! If you know or have young(ish) kids of your own or you are a 37 year old big kid (for example!), you may like to visit the NORAD Tracks Santa web site on Christmas Eve. The North American Aerospace Defense Command &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=589\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NORAD Tracks Santa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","category-scouts","tag-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-9v","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}