{"id":827,"date":"2006-12-21T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/12\/sea-of-seasonal-red-and-white.html"},"modified":"2006-12-21T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T17:07:00","slug":"sea-of-seasonal-red-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/12\/sea-of-seasonal-red-and-white.html","title":{"rendered":"A Sea of Seasonal Red and White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/tout\/story\/santaconchat.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 350px\" src=\"https:\/\/media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/tout\/story\/santaconchat.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a shot of a recent, large Santa Rampage in New York City&#8217;s Central Park. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SantaCon\" target=\"_new\">Santa Rampages <\/a>(also known as Red Menaces, SantaCons or Santa Conferences) are exuberant expressions of the holiday spirit. Folks wearing rented or purchased Santa suits simply gather to spread good cheer, sing and have fun. Wikipedia calls the gatherings &#8220;bawdy&#8221; and &#8220;harmless.&#8221; Often, some attempt is made to raise money for charity. Read more about the history of SantaCons <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SantaCon\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Mike Buckland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a shot of a recent, large Santa Rampage in New York City&#8217;s Central Park. Santa Rampages (also known as Red Menaces, SantaCons or Santa Conferences) are exuberant expressions of the holiday spirit. Folks wearing rented or purchased Santa suits simply gather to spread good cheer, sing and have fun. Wikipedia calls the gatherings &#8220;bawdy&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Sea of Seasonal Red and White - Chattering Mind<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/12\/sea-of-seasonal-red-and-white.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Sea of Seasonal Red and White - Chattering Mind\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#8217;s a shot of a recent, large Santa Rampage in New York City&#8217;s Central Park. 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