{"id":597,"date":"2006-12-12T17:50:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T21:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=597"},"modified":"2006-12-12T17:51:04","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T21:51:04","slug":"scared-of-santa-first-of-the-bah-humbug-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Scared of Santa: First of the Bah-Humbug! series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southflorida.com\/events\/sfl-scaredsanta,0,2245506.photogallery?coll=sfe-events-headlines&#038;index=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"santa\" title=\"santa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/media\/photo\/2003-12\/10670856.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve seen the big Santa display every year at the malls.  You&#8217;ve seen the kids line up around the North Pole getup, annoyed impatient parents in tow, wanting desperately to sit on that old fart&#8217;s lap and tell him what they want for Christmas. A blurry Polaroid is taken of each encounter, and the parents are charged exhorbitant prices to retrieve the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>But, there&#8217;s another, not-so-ruddy and cheerful side to this scenario that plays out every year: the countless kids who get scared and traumatized by the old coot.  Now, those horrors have been documented.  Behold, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southflorida.com\/events\/sfl-scaredsanta,0,2245506.photogallery?coll=sfe-events-headlines&#038;index=1\">Scared of Santa gallery<\/a>.  View, and enjoy at the expense of countless frightened children, you old Scrooge you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve seen the big Santa display every year at the malls. You&#8217;ve seen the kids line up around the North Pole getup, annoyed impatient parents in tow, wanting desperately to sit on that old fart&#8217;s lap and tell him what they want for Christmas. A blurry Polaroid is taken of each encounter, and the parents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}