{"id":27759,"date":"2015-10-14T17:21:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T00:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/santa-claus-elected-to-north-pole-city-council\/"},"modified":"2015-10-14T17:21:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T00:21:07","slug":"santa-claus-elected-to-north-pole-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/santa-claus-elected-to-north-pole-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Claus elected to North Pole City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FAIRBANKS \u2014<\/strong> Santa Claus has been chosen to represent the people of North Pole.<\/p>\n<p>The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported that a man whose legal name is Santa Claus won a write-in campaign for an open City Council seat in the 2,200-person Alaska town of North Pole.<\/p>\n<p>He began campaigning in his red velvet suit just two weeks before the Oct. 6 election. Claus received 58 votes and a seat on the six-person Council.<\/p>\n<p>No official candidates had filed for the two City Council positions. The second open seat was won by write-in candidate Elyse Dawson, a youth pastor at the North Pole Assembly of God.<\/p>\n<p>Claus is the former president of the North Pole Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRBANKS \u2014 Santa Claus has been chosen to represent the people of North Pole. The Fairbanks Daily <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">News<\/a>-Miner reported that a man whose legal name is Santa Claus won a write-in campaign for an open City Council seat in the 2,200-person Alaska town of North Pole. He began campaigning in his red velvet suit just [&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-27759","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\/27759","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=27759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27759"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}