{"id":20597,"date":"2017-12-22T14:29:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T13:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/22\/down-with-the-stigmatisation-of-rudolph-he-cant-help-his-nose\/"},"modified":"2017-12-22T14:29:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T13:29:01","slug":"down-with-the-stigmatisation-of-rudolph-he-cant-help-his-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=20597","title":{"rendered":"Down with the stigmatisation of Rudolph. He can\u2019t help his nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mistreatment of reindeer and elves, phallocentric crackers and sexually suggestive wreaths \u2013 Christmas has to be stoppedI recently stumbled across a&nbsp;penetrating article by Latham Hunter, a Canadian professor of cultural studies and communications, entitled: \u201cIt\u2019s a&nbsp;holly jolly feminist Christmas \u2013 filled with one patriarchal construct after another.\u201dChristmas has become considerably more problematic as a discourse since the publication of the article in 2014. It has long been noted that the personal is political. For Hunter, the seasonal is also political. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/dec\/22\/rudolph-nose-christmas-reindeer-elves-mistletoe\" target=\"_blank\">Down with the stigmatisation of Rudolph. He can\u2019t help his nose<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mistreatment of reindeer and elves, phallocentric crackers and sexually suggestive wreaths \u2013 Christmas has to be stoppedI recently stumbled across a&nbsp;penetrating article by Latham Hunter, a Canadian professor of cultural studies and communications, entitled: \u201cIt\u2019s a&nbsp;holly jolly feminist Christmas \u2013 filled with one patriarchal construct after another.\u201dChristmas has become considerably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}