{"id":3955,"date":"2013-12-16T08:53:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=3955"},"modified":"2013-12-16T08:53:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:53:47","slug":"this-right-here-is-why-santacon-cant-have-nice-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/12\/16\/this-right-here-is-why-santacon-cant-have-nice-things\/","title":{"rendered":"This Right Here Is Why SantaCon Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Have Nice Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/12\/15\/15-santacon.o.jpg\/a_190x190.jpg?w=525\"><\/p>\n<p>On the whole, SantaCon may have gone a little smoother this year than it has recently. But despite the heavy police presence and the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304403804579260723282850190\">relatively low number of summonses<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0 the lasting image will still be the video of a group of red-suited drunks beating the snot out of one another in the snow. Gothamist has a more <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2013\/12\/15\/watch_santacon_videos_to_remind_you.php\">full account<\/a> of the transgressions that accompanied the night, but really all you need to see to understand why everybody hates this event is <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/12\/15\/santa-clauses-throw-down\/\">this video<\/a>, in which a well-lubricated scrum of Santas slips around violently in the gutter, punching each other for a very entertaining minute and a half or so. Merry Christmas, you\u00c2\u00a0belligerent jerks!<\/p>\n<p>Read more posts by <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/author\/adam%20martin\">Adam Martin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Filed Under: <strong><a title=\"Read all posts tagged santacon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/santacon\">santacon<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>,<a title=\"Read all posts tagged jerks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/jerks\">jerks<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>via Daily Intelligencer http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/12\/this-is-why-santacon-cant-have-nice-things.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the whole, SantaCon may have gone a little smoother this year than it has recently. But despite the heavy police presence and the relatively low number of summonses,\u00c2\u00a0 the lasting image will still be the video of a group of red-suited drunks beating the snot out of one another in the snow. Gothamist has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/12\/16\/this-right-here-is-why-santacon-cant-have-nice-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Right Here Is Why SantaCon Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Have Nice Things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1031,6,1032,1033],"class_list":["post-3955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-feedly","tag-ifttt","tag-recently-read","tag-saved-for-later"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-11N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}