{"id":2071,"date":"2004-12-13T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/12\/13\/\/"},"modified":"2004-12-13T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2004-12-13T19:00:35","slug":"2071","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/2071\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/north_yorkshire\/4074685.stm\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Church Anger Over &#8216;Devil&#8217; Santa<\/strong><\/a><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/devil-santa.jpg\" alt=\"Devil Santa\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong>Church leaders in York say the Christmas display at one of the city&#8217;s tourist attractions could expose children to &#8220;evil forces&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As well as meeting the alternative Santa, visitors to the grotto are handed &#8220;gifts&#8221; such as severed fingers, and can write on a scroll to sign their souls away.<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedungeons.com\/index.htm\" rel=\"external\">On its website<\/a><\/strong> the dungeon says the festive attraction includes elves impaled on spikes and robins roasting over an open fire with Santa being put in a witch&#8217;s cauldron and boiled.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for York Dungeon said, &#8220;There are many people who are tired and weary of the commercial aspect of Christmas and for those people our attraction comes as a light relief&#8230; It is all tongue-in-cheek and our visitors love it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapel-perilous.net\" rel=\"external\">Bsti<\/a>!!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church Anger Over &#8216;Devil&#8217; SantaChurch leaders in York say the Christmas display at one of the city&#8217;s tourist attractions could expose children to &#8220;evil forces&#8221;. As well as meeting the alternative Santa, visitors to the grotto are handed &#8220;gifts&#8221; such as severed fingers, and can write on a scroll to sign their souls away. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}