{"id":91548,"date":"2025-12-17T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/91548\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:50:10","slug":"mischievous-elf-on-the-shelf-delights-el-paso-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/91548\/","title":{"rendered":"Mischievous elf on the shelf delights El Paso seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:KTSM;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 An Elf on the Shelf has been causing some trouble for the El Paso senior community at the Legacy at Cimarron.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/49723c52bb87eb3b646a6828b060c2cc.jpeg\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"589\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/75756ff4d8b73b355dd7f82089a86924.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Elf on the Shelf, Peppermint Patty, has shown up in unexpected locations, rearranged items, and made her presence known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Staff walked in one morning to find the Life Enrichment Director\u2019s window covered with whipped-cream Christmas trees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pepperming Patty had raided the kitchen supplies and spent the night spray-painting the glass!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During a physical activity program for residents, Peppermint Patty perched on one resident\u2019s shoulder for the entire route.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Peppermint Patty was able to get a front-row seat to the program, and the resident was able to complete the activity with a new workout partner.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b80fe21ab25b127b1103389ae9dcab3b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cPeppermint Patty has been getting into everything, but her spray paint job may be her best prank yet. Her catching a ride on a resident\u2019s shoulder during the Walk &amp; Roll was a close second! Our Connections residents check every morning to see where she\u2019s turned up and what she\u2019s done. It\u2019s safe to say this elf has been keeping us on our toes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Legacy at Cimarron Executive Director Jacob Boggs <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KTSM 9 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 An Elf on the Shelf has been causing some trouble for the El&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,43064,43063],"class_list":["post-91548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-pepperming-patty","tag-peppermint-patty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}