{"id":7319,"date":"2012-12-25T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=7319"},"modified":"2012-12-25T12:01:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T17:01:10","slug":"countries-where-santa-better-watch-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/countries-where-santa-better-watch-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Countries Where Santa Better Watch Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/122512_1645_CountriesWh1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In decades past there&#8217;s not much that countries could do about a red suited intruder violating their airspace and infiltrating their houses. In the age of heat-seeking intercontinental ballistic missiles however, Santa Claus should probably think twice before entering these countries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Uzbekistan Santa Claus, and, from Soviet folklore, his female sidekick, are banned. They might be able to hide behind a Christmas tree though \u2013 those are still allowed, at least on television.<\/li>\n<li>The atheist North Korea doesn&#8217;t allow the celebration of Christmas \u2013 and threatens to bomb South Korea if they celebrate it to close to its border.<\/li>\n<li>In Saudi Arabia, Father Christmas might be able to deliver presents inside Western compounds \u2013 but nowhere else.<\/li>\n<li>The Vatican was successfully able to pressure Venezuela to allow Christmas in 1998 \u2013 but Santa may want to leave Rudolph and his bright red nose at home \u2013 discretion would be wise in a country where the government still discourages &#8220;western&#8221; festivals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about each of these countries, as well as one other country where Santa isn&#8217;t welcomed over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/12\/24\/the_world_war_on_christmas?page=full\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/12\/24\/the_world_war_on_christmas?page=full\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In decades past there&#8217;s not much that countries could do about a red suited intruder violating their airspace and infiltrating their houses. In the age of heat-seeking intercontinental ballistic missiles however, Santa Claus should probably think twice before entering these countries: In Uzbekistan Santa Claus, and, from Soviet folklore, his female sidekick, are banned. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/122512_1645_CountriesWh1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7322,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7319\/revisions\/7322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}