{"id":8328,"date":"2014-12-23T22:11:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T03:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=8328"},"modified":"2014-12-23T22:11:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T03:11:27","slug":"2014-norad-santa-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2014\/12\/23\/general-interest\/2014-norad-santa-tracker\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 NORAD Santa Tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> - Months become weeks, weeks become days, and as December 25th approaches, children's questions like; \"<em>How long until Christmas?<\/em>\", and \"<em>Are you sure Santa knows where our house is?<\/em>\", come with increasing frequency.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to NORAD, (the <em>North American Aerospace Defense Command<\/em>), kids of all ages can track Santa's travels on Christmas Eve with radar accuracy -- and spend time on the NORAD Santa Tracker Website playing games and enjoying other activities while they wait for <em>the jolliest elf<\/em> to arrive.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0px auto;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FHSves_wR3U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>History of the NORAD Santa Tracker:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7686\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1955-norad-santa-sears-ad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7686\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7686\" src=\"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/1955-norad-santa-sears-ad.jpg\" alt=\"1955 Sears Christmas Ad mistakenly publishes Air Force hotline number\" width=\"200\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1955 Sears Christmas Ad mistakenly publishes Air Force \/ CONAD hotline number.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1955, a U.S. Air Force agency called \"CONAD\", (the <em>Continental Air Command)<\/em>, had it's phone number, (<strong>ME2-6681<\/strong>), mistakenly published in Christmas ad for the Sears Roebuck store in Colorado Springs, CO.<\/p>\n<p>The ad encouraged kids to call the number to talk to Santa.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of Christmas, CONAD Operations Director, Col. Harry Shoup had staff give children updates on Santa's location.<\/p>\n<p>Three years later, the United States and Canada formed NORAD, and the agency decided to follow Col. Shoup's lead, and made the \"Santa Hotline\" a favorite annual event for the agency.<\/p>\n<p>From 1955 to 1996, the \"Santa Tracker\" was a call-in telephone hotline and newspapers,\u00a0radio and television programs promoted it to children across the country.<\/p>\n<p>In 1997, Santa went high-tech, and the agency created the NORAD Santa Tracker website -- which has been updated over the past 15 years to include \"live satellite tracking\" and fun, interactive activities for kids.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Click link below to visit -<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"NORAD Santa 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.NORADSANTA.org\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">www.NORADSANTA.org<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8211; Months become weeks, weeks become days, and as December 25th approaches, children&#8217;s questions like; &#8220;How long until Christmas?&#8221;, and &#8220;Are you sure Santa knows where our house is?&#8221;, come with increasing frequency. Thanks to NORAD, (the North American Aerospace Defense Command), kids of all ages can track Santa&#8217;s travels on Christmas Eve with radar&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2014\/12\/23\/general-interest\/2014-norad-santa-tracker\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[3781,3814,3394,1399,3779],"class_list":["post-8328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest","tag-christmas-2014","tag-christmas-eve","tag-santa","tag-santa-claus","tag-santa-framingham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8328"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8333,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8328\/revisions\/8333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}