{"id":10868,"date":"2025-12-08T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/?p=10868"},"modified":"2025-12-08T00:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:16:02","slug":"here-comes-krampus-how-the-half-goat-half-demon-became-a-cultural-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/2025\/12\/08\/here-comes-krampus-how-the-half-goat-half-demon-became-a-cultural-phenomenon\/","title":{"rendered":"Here comes Krampus: How the half-goat, half-demon became a cultural phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of our winter fun is chasing the Minnesota Krampus group around the Cities. Little did we know that it is becoming more and more of a<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/WiZcI\"> seasonal thing elsewhere<\/a> too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Granted, I am not sure I can make a 12-foot skeleton into a Krampus, plant him on the roof and have him whipping elves in the yard just yet&#8230;but maybe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"919\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image.png?fit=692%2C919&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image.png?w=692&amp;ssl=1 692w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image.png?resize=226%2C300&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image.png?resize=624%2C829&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of our winter fun is chasing the Minnesota Krampus group around the Cities. Little did we know that it is becoming more and more of a seasonal thing elsewhere too. Granted, I am not sure I can make a 12-foot skeleton into a Krampus, plant him on the roof and have him whipping elves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptids","category-minnesota-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10870,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions\/10870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallenfeldt.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}