{"id":238689,"date":"2013-12-09T15:49:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T15:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/12\/09\/the-tiny-detective\/"},"modified":"2013-12-09T15:49:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T15:49:41","slug":"the-tiny-detective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/12\/09\/the-tiny-detective\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tiny Detective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mylittlecornerofsherlock.tumblr.com\/post\/69436539764\/the-tiny-detective\" target=\"_blank\">mylittlecornerofsherlock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Prompt: Santa Claus costume with extra stuffing<\/p>\n<p>Hamish squealed with joy when Santa Claus came \u201cHo-Ho-Ho\u201ding through the door of the flat. \u00a0His blue eyes lit up even brighter than normal and he actually jumped up and down in his excitement. \u00a0John beamed, happy that their son was so entranced. \u00a0But he could practically feel Sherlock\u2019s scowl from behind him. \u00a0He was glad Hamish couldn\u2019t see his father\u2019s face in that moment.<\/p>\n<p>John pulled Sherlock aside. \u00a0\u201cAs my gift this year, you promised to let him have this one year. \u00a0To see how he would react. \u00a0He\u2019s enjoying himself. \u00a0He\u2019s happy. \u00a0Please just let us have one year of Christmas \u2018magic\u2019 as a family.\u201d Sherlock rolled his eyes, but kissed the top of John\u2019s head in acknowledgement. \u00a0John smiled and Sherlock put on his \u2018happy face\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Hamish was busy telling Santa all about blocks he knew Father had gotten him. \u00a0\u201cAnd they have all the elements from the Periodic Table on them.\u201d \u00a0He was very precocious for a four year old. \u00a0\u201cPapa says they\u2019re to build with, but Father says they\u2019re for learning. \u00a0Can\u2019t they be for both?\u201d \u00a0Hamish looked at Santa with hopeful eyes. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under the cut for length.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/1068768\/chapters\/2160292\" target=\"_blank\">Also on AO3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mylittlecornerofsherlock.tumblr.com\/post\/69436539764\/the-tiny-detective\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mylittlecornerofsherlock: Prompt: Santa Claus costume with extra stuffing Hamish squealed with joy when Santa Claus came \u201cHo-Ho-Ho\u201ding through the door of the flat. \u00a0His blue eyes lit up even brighter than normal and he actually jumped up and down in his excitement. \u00a0John beamed, happy that their son was so entranced. \u00a0But he could practically &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/12\/09\/the-tiny-detective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Tiny Detective&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4375,2979],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}