{"id":2508,"date":"2016-12-21T09:03:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T17:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/ap-fact-check-sarah-palin-didnt-criticize-black-santa\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T09:03:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T17:03:25","slug":"ap-fact-check-sarah-palin-didnt-criticize-black-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/ap-fact-check-sarah-palin-didnt-criticize-black-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"AP FACT CHECK: Sarah Palin didn&#8217;t criticize black Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MINNEAPOLIS \u2014<\/strong> A story claiming former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called for boycotting the Mall of America in Minnesota over its black Santa Claus is false.<\/p>\n<p>The story, posted by Newslo and some affiliated websites, claims Palin told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, \u201cSanta was always white in the Bible.\u201d It\u2019s been widely shared on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>But the Star Tribune never ran such a story. And the newspaper\u2019s managing editor, Suki Dardarian, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that none of her reporters ever spoke with Palin about the mall\u2019s recent hiring of its black Santa.<\/p>\n<p>Palin appeared to deny the false story in a Facebook post earlier this month, posting a shot of that story with an acerbic comment.<\/p>\n<p>Palin family attorney John Tiemessen was checking on a more detailed response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 A story claiming former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called for boycotting the Mall of America in Minnesota over its black Santa Claus is false. The story, posted by Newslo and some affiliated websites, claims Palin told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, \u201cSanta was always white in the Bible.\u201d It\u2019s been widely shared on [&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-2508","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\/2508","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=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}