{"id":4579,"date":"2013-12-17T08:59:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T13:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2013-12-17T08:59:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T13:59:53","slug":"santa-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4579","title":{"rendered":"Santa Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 304px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/42\/MerryOldSanta.jpg\/434px-MerryOldSanta.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"420\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Santa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>People are probably familiar with the controversy over the racial identity of Santa, Santa Claus, or St.Nick, or Saint Nicholas. \u00c2\u00a0TL;DR: <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/megyn-kellys-non-apology-and-fox-news-race-bait\/197280\">Megyn Kelly<\/a>, Fox News personality, alleged that &#8220;Santa is white&#8221; and Jesus was white&#8221; are &#8220;historical facts.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/thu-december-12-2013\/war-on-christmas---s--t-s-getting-weird-edition---black-santa\">here<\/a> for discussion<\/p>\n<p>According to some of the older kids at my school, there really isn&#8217;t a Santa, he&#8217;s just you&#8217;re parents. \u00c2\u00a0This explains why a lot of very good kids don&#8217;t get any presents at Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>This also explains why this assertion from Bill O&#8217;Reilly makes no sense (from <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/bill-o-reilly-megyn-kelly-is-correct-santa-was-a-white-person-video\">TPM<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In this case, Megyn Kelly is correct. Santa <strong>was<\/strong> a white person&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;was,&#8221; that&#8217;s funny, it&#8217;s almost as if O&#8217;Reilly thinks Santa no longer exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are probably familiar with the controversy over the racial identity of Santa, Santa Claus, or St.Nick, or Saint Nicholas. \u00c2\u00a0TL;DR: Megyn Kelly, Fox News personality, alleged that &#8220;Santa is white&#8221; and Jesus was white&#8221; are &#8220;historical facts.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0See here for discussion According to some of the older kids at my school, there really isn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4579\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Santa Baby<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[911,912,1806,1807],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bill-oreilly","tag-fox-news","tag-megyn-kelly","tag-santa-claus-was-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4580,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions\/4580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}