{"id":746,"date":"2007-11-15T07:10:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T15:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/15\/santas-free-speech-limited\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T08:25:15","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T16:25:15","slug":"santas-free-speech-limited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/15\/santas-free-speech-limited\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa&#8217;s Free Speech Limited"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><center>Ho, ho, ho<\/center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/santaho.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a Santa 'Ho\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20071115\/od_afp\/lifestyleaustraliachristmasoffbeat_071115024540\" target=\"_blank\" >Yahoo News<\/a>:  <\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY (AFP) &#8211; Santas in Australia&#8217;s largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas&#8217;s traditional &#8220;ho ho ho&#8221; greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney&#8217;s Santa Clauses have instead been instructed to say &#8220;ha ha ha&#8221; instead, the Daily Telegraph reported.<\/p>\n<p>One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use &#8220;ho ho ho&#8221; because it could frighten children and was too close to &#8220;ho&#8221;, a US slang term for prostitute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gimme a break,&#8221; said Julie Gale, who runs the campaign against sexualising children called Kids Free 2B Kids.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are talking about little kids who do not understand that &#8220;ho, ho, ho&#8221; has any other connotation and nor should they,&#8221; she told the Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Leave Santa alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A local spokesman for the US-based Westaff recruitment firm said it was &#8220;misleading&#8221; to say the company had banned Santa&#8217;s traditional greeting and it was being left up to the discretion of the individual Santa himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ho, ho, ho Via Yahoo News: SYDNEY (AFP) &#8211; Santas in Australia&#8217;s largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas&#8217;s traditional &#8220;ho ho ho&#8221; greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday. Sydney&#8217;s Santa Clauses have instead been instructed to say &#8220;ha ha ha&#8221; instead, the Daily Telegraph reported. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}