{"id":23483,"date":"2015-11-03T18:46:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T01:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=23483"},"modified":"2015-11-03T17:52:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T00:52:15","slug":"paypal-does-not-believe-in-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/paypal-does-not-believe-in-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"Paypal Does Not Believe in Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paypal is really ticking some people off in the UK. Like many pushing <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> shopping early in the UK Paypal has jumped into the race for schmaltzy <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">commercial<\/a> dominance with an ad that irritates instead of inspires. Some think they are dissing <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Claus &#8212; or at least tipping off children that <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> is not real. What kind of company does not believe in <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The premise of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">commercial<\/a> is simple enough. Two little boys anxious for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> observe that their parents seem to doing less shopping than normal for this time of the year. Normally grandparents come over to tend while parents are out getting <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> loot. This year, not so much because Mummy and Dad are shopping online and using Paypal&#8217;s super fast checkout service. That&#8217;s all the children see. <\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> morning, there&#8217;s the loot &#8212; but who is responsible? What do you think? Does this spoil <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pdu0WKIhjeU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paypal is really ticking some people off in the UK. Like many pushing Christmas shopping early in the UK Paypal has jumped into the race for schmaltzy Christmas commercial dominance with an ad that irritates instead of inspires. Some think they are dissing Santa Claus &#8212; or at least tipping off children that Santa is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23484,"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":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,2,99,15],"tags":[402],"class_list":["post-23483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-news","category-christmas-television","category-christmas-video","tag-paypal-christmas-commercial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23483","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=23483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}