{"id":588,"date":"2015-10-28T16:47:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T16:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2022-10-25T17:24:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:24:27","slug":"santa-claus-successfully-elected-for-north-poles-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/santa-claus-successfully-elected-for-north-poles-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Claus Successfully Elected for North Pole\u2019s City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The results are in and the man called Santa Claus running for North Pole, Alaska\u2019s city council has been successfully elected a seat.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/santa-claus-runs-for-north-poles-city-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previous post<\/a>, we detailed the story of a man with an uncanny resemblance (not to mention the same name) as <em>Old Saint Nick<\/em> and how he was running for city council in the Alaskan town of North Pole \u2013 a city with a population of just 2,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>After counting up the ballots, it seems the citizens of North Pole were happy to have Santa Claus represent their town \u2013 either that, or they didn\u2019t want to be put on the naughty list this year.<\/p>\n<p>Here Mr. Claus shares the good news on his Facebook page:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_589\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheSantaClaus\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-589\" class=\"wp-image-589 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-28-at-16.20.43.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Facebook\" width=\"800\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-28-at-16.20.43.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-28-at-16.20.43-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TheSantaClaus \/ Facebook<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results are in and the man called Santa Claus running for North Pole, Alaska\u2019s city council has been successfully elected a seat. In a previous post, we detailed the story of a man with an uncanny resemblance (not to mention the same name) as Old Saint Nick and how he was running for city council in the Alaskan town of North Pole \u2013 a city with a population of just 2,000 people. After counting up the ballots, it seems the citizens of North Pole were happy to have Santa Claus represent their town \u2013 either that, or they didn\u2019t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddballnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}