{"id":17952,"date":"2016-12-30T18:54:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T02:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/santa-claus-is-back-on-facebook\/"},"modified":"2016-12-30T18:54:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T02:54:15","slug":"santa-claus-is-back-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/santa-claus-is-back-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Claus is back on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FAIRBANKS \u2014 <\/strong>Santa Claus\u2019 Facebook account has been reinstated after the social media company suspended his access and demanded proof of identity on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>Claus, a North Pole city councilman, said he was never given a reason why his page was blocked. He said he thought Facebook didn\u2019t believe his name was Santa Claus or that he lived in North Pole.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook spokeswoman apologized in an email Tuesday for suspending Claus\u2019 account and said it was done by mistake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe account was removed in error and restored as soon as we were able to investigate,\u201d the company said in a statement. \u201cOur team processes millions of reports each week, and we sometimes get things wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To get his account reinstated, Claus said he sent multiple documents proving his identity, including copies of his Alaska driver\u2019s license and letter of appointment to the North Pole City Council. Claus said he is the only Santa Claus on Facebook who resides in the city and legally goes by the name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just can\u2019t believe somebody, particularly on Christmas, would take me to task,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Claus, who goes on his Facebook page regularly, said he uses the social media platform to share \u201cnice quotes\u201d and interact with people. His page has more than 300,000 \u201clikes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRBANKS \u2014 Santa Claus\u2019 Facebook account has been reinstated after the social media company suspended his access and demanded proof of identity on Christmas Day. Claus, a North Pole city councilman, said he was never given a reason why his page was blocked. He said he thought Facebook didn\u2019t believe his name was Santa Claus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17952"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}