{"id":2449,"date":"2010-03-30T22:11:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T04:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2015-01-01T09:17:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T14:17:58","slug":"easter-bunny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/easter-bunny\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Bunny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2450\" title=\"bunny\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/bunny.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s interesting how varied the Easter Bunny tradition is in families.<\/strong> As a kid growing up I found it much easier to believe in Santa Claus. After all, Santa wasn&#8217;t a buck-toothed, long-eared lagomorph that hopped into your house to deliver Easter baskets while you were sleeping. I mean, come on! An over-sized rabbit delivering candy? Really? That simply didn&#8217;t seem believable. Now, flying reindeer \u2013 that was different.<\/p>\n<p>I also never quite understood why the Easter Bunny pretended to be Santa Claus with other families. As far as I knew, there was no behavior prerequisite that the Easter Bunny followed when determining the size of his offerings, so it didn&#8217;t make sense why some kids got bikes and stereos. The Easter Bunny I knew only delivered candy in plastic eggs, and if there were any gifts they were sure to fit in that modestly-sized basket covered with plenty of that extra special, plastic grass. Strange. Maybe we were supposed to write letters to the Easter Bunny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting how varied the Easter Bunny tradition is in families. As a kid growing up I found it much easier to believe in Santa Claus. After all, Santa wasn&#8217;t a buck-toothed, long-eared lagomorph that hopped into your house to deliver Easter baskets while you were sleeping. I mean, come on! An over-sized rabbit delivering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[405,16,260],"tags":[406],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easter","category-holidays","category-traditions","tag-bunny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-Dv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8039,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/8039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}