{"id":5339,"date":"2019-11-20T18:13:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T02:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/?p=5339"},"modified":"2025-04-22T19:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T02:16:16","slug":"read-island-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/read-island-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"INTRO to SOME KINDA WOMAN &#038; Read Island Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <strong><em>Read Island Santa<\/em><\/strong>, The voices of Sunshine Coast residents and old timers, Cynthia Culbard Jones and Diana Culbard Peters are\u00a0combined in this short about their first\u00a0Christmas in the 30s at Read Island \u2013 so far away that Santa would\u00a0never find them. And yet, a man named Mr.\u00a0Green visits their school house on\u00a0Christmas Eve and surprises\u00a0everyone,\u00a0\u2018even the old bachelors&#8217;. It\u2019s a charming tale about the blissfully gullible soul of a child &amp;one of life&#8217;s early lesson in unfairness. \u00a0What is Christmas if it\u00a0doesn\u2019t have a bit of magical imagination?<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/12287897\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/3a4aa9\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Buy the book from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s?k=A+Theory+of+Expanded+Love&amp;i=stripbooks-intl-ship&amp;crid=3VQ6SXTCG3I7P&amp;sprefix=a+theory+of+expanded+love%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C152&amp;ref=nb_sb_noss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon HERE<\/a>, or from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunburypress.com\/collections\/historical\/products\/a-theory-of-expanded-love?variant=40985249775709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunbury Press HERE<\/a>. Get the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chirpbooks.com\/audiobooks\/a-theory-of-expanded-love-by-caitlin-hicks?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Audiobook version HERE<\/a> <\/strong>from Chirpbooks.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Back to:<\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/podcast\/\">ALL MY PODCASTS PAGE\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Read Island Santa, The voices of Sunshine Coast residents and old timers, Cynthia Culbard Jones and Diana Culbard Peters are\u00a0combined in this short about their first\u00a0Christmas in the 30s at Read Island \u2013 so far away that Santa would\u00a0never find them. And yet, a man named Mr.\u00a0Green visits their school house on\u00a0Christmas Eve and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,155],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-5339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-somekinda-woman-podcast","tag-stories-for-a-winter-solstice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7974,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5339\/revisions\/7974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}