{"id":1550,"date":"2009-12-05T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:10:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:10:37","slug":"elf-going-rogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1550","title":{"rendered":"Elf Going Rogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I thought Christmas was going pretty well. I&#8217;ve strung lights, made cookies, bought Christmas gifts, gone to church, and put up the tree. True, maybe I missed the boat on a few things. Like I almost helped an old lady across the street but she was kind of slow and I was in a hurry and there wasn&#8217;t anything over there for her to go to anyway. But hey, nobody is perfect.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">But look what I got recently.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4158381883\/\" title=\"20091204_8 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20091204_8\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/4158381883_15be58d2dc-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At first it was like, hey, that&#8217;s interesting. I wonder what&#8217;s in the bag? It is kind of suggestive, don&#8217;t you think? Red bag, and gold embroidered lettering. Somebody went to a lot of trouble to make this. You know they say good things come in small packages.<\/p>\n<p>So I opened it up, and what?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4159145364\/\" title=\"20091204_9 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20091204_9\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/4159145364_e91c96b571-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The dreaded lumps of coal. <\/p>\n<p>So, I don&#8217;t know. Is Santa running ahead of schedule? Clearing all the bad boys off the list, because there are so many of us maybe. Or maybe he has to get rid of his coal because of the impending global warming&nbsp; legislation coming up. Is Santa not green?<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe the coal&nbsp;was a warning from&nbsp;a Rogue Elf? Maybe I need straighten my act up? I don&#8217;t know. Maybe the Rogue Elf is actually, The Ghost of Christmas Future? Oh, that&#8217;s not good. That doesn&#8217;t bode well.<\/p>\n<p>I started to do my research. Who could this Rogue Elf be. After much exhausting surfing on the net and even more games of Facebook Bejewled Blitz trying to figure this out, bingo,&nbsp;I found the Rogue Elf. Her name is Baloney. She&nbsp; has her own blog,&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/soundslikebaloney.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/boo.html\">evil elf dot com<\/a>. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Do I deserve lumps of coal or not? Am I not a nice guy? Is it too late or can I redeem myself?<\/p>\n<p>Are you getting coal for Christmas?&nbsp;What did you do to deserve it? We want to know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I thought Christmas was going pretty well. I&#8217;ve strung lights, made cookies, bought Christmas gifts, gone to church, and put up the tree. True, maybe I missed the boat on a few things. 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