{"id":11554,"date":"2014-10-07T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/i-am-santa-claus-debuts-on-blu-ray\/"},"modified":"2014-11-03T06:32:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T13:32:42","slug":"i-am-santa-claus-debuts-on-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/i-am-santa-claus-debuts-on-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"I am Santa Claus Debuts on Blu-ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mick Foley\u2019s pet project <em>I am <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Claus<\/em> will be released on Blu-ray this holiday season. Virgil Films &amp; Entertainment has announced the documentary arrives on Blu-ray on November 11th. <\/p>\n<p>But check the kids at the door \u2014 this ain\u2019t your Daddy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> documentary. <\/p>\n<p>Everyone thinks of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Claus as a magical figure without flaws, but the men who keep his legend alive, real-bearded professional Santas, are rarely anything like the jolly old Saint Nick we\u2019ve all grown up knowing. In reality, the mall <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> in your cherished children\u2019s photo has problems just like the rest of us. Even the most jovial of men fall victim to divorce, job loss, insecurity and even the occasional hangover. The film is directed by Tommy Avallone and produced by Hall of Fame professional wrestler, Mick Foley.<\/p>\n<p><em>I Am <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Claus<\/em> follows the lives of five professional Santas for an entire year, as they anticipate and prepare for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> season and then return to their \u201creal\u201d lives during the off-season. We see who they actually are: flawed, flesh-and-blood men who nevertheless feel a great responsibility to protect the spotless reputation of the \u201cRed Suit.\u201d Also appearing in the film are pro wrestling\u2019s Roddy Piper and Jerry Lawler, iconic actor Sid Haig and the actor who calls himself\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Claus. <\/p>\n<p>[youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SOlYi01FVEE&amp;w=560&amp;h=315]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mick Foley\u2019s pet project I am Santa Claus will be released on Blu-ray this holiday season. Virgil Films &amp; Entertainment has announced the documentary arrives on Blu-ray on November 11th. But check the kids at the door \u2014 this ain\u2019t your Daddy\u2019s Santa documentary. Everyone thinks of Santa Claus as a magical figure without flaws, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-11554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-movies","tag-christmas-movies-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}