{"id":41953,"date":"2016-11-30T01:21:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T06:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41953"},"modified":"2016-11-30T01:21:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T06:21:28","slug":"norad-is-ready-to-track-santas-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/11\/norad-is-ready-to-track-santas-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"NORAD Is Ready To Track Santa\u2019s Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special to the Lehigh Acres Gazette<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41954\" title=\"NORAD tracks Santa in 2014.\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/NORAD-tracks-Santa-in-2014.-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/NORAD-tracks-Santa-in-2014.-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/NORAD-tracks-Santa-in-2014..jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The North American Aerospace Defense Command is celebrating the 61st Anniversary of tracking Santa\u2019s yuletide journey!\u00a0 The NORAD Tracks Santa website,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.noradsanta.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.noradsanta.org<\/a>, launching\u00a0Dec 1, features Santa\u2019s North Pole Village, which includes a holiday countdown, games, activities, and more.\u00a0 The website is available in eight languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>Official NORAD Tracks Santa apps are also available in the Windows, Apple and Google Play stores, so parents and children can countdown the days until Santa\u2019s launch on their smart phones and tablets!\u00a0 Tracking opportunities are also offered on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Google+.\u00a0 Santa followers just need to type \u201c@noradsanta\u201d into each search engine to get started.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Starting at\u00a02:01 a.m. EST\u00a0on\u00a0Dec. 24, website visitors can watch Santa make preparations for his flight.\u00a0 NORAD\u2019s \u201cSanta Cams\u201d will stream videos on the website as Santa makes his way over various locations. Then, at\u00a06 a.m. EST, trackers worldwide can speak with a live phone operator to inquire as to Santa\u2019s whereabouts by dialing the toll-free number 1-877-Hi-NORAD\u00a0<a href=\"tel:(877)%20446-6723\" target=\"_blank\">(1-877-446-6723<\/a>) or by sending an email to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:noradtrackssanta@outlook.com\" target=\"_blank\">noradtrackssanta@outlook.com<\/a>. Any time on\u00a0Dec. 24, Windows Phone users can ask Cortana for Santa\u2019s location, and OnStar subscribers can press the OnStar button in their vehicles to locate Santa.<\/p>\n<p>It all started in 1955 when a local media advertisement directed children to call Santa direct \u2013 only the number was misprinted.\u00a0 Instead of reaching Santa, the phone rang through to the Crew Commander on duty at the Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center.\u00a0 Thus began the tradition, which NORAD carried on since it was created in 1958.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special to the Lehigh Acres Gazette The North American Aerospace Defense Command is celebrating the 61st Anniversary of tracking Santa\u2019s yuletide journey!\u00a0 The NORAD Tracks Santa website,\u00a0www.noradsanta.org, launching\u00a0Dec 1, features&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}