{"id":23527,"date":"2015-11-08T17:32:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T00:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=23527"},"modified":"2015-11-08T17:32:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T00:32:17","slug":"mall-glacier-melts-under-heat-of-christmas-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/mall-glacier-melts-under-heat-of-christmas-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Mall Glacier Melts Under Heat of Christmas Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The management of South Park Mall in Charlotte, North Carolina got the message loud and clear: <em>nobody<\/em> liked Santa&#8217;s new digs this year. <\/p>\n<p>As reported earlier, the mall erected a new <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> set called the &#8220;Glacier <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> Experience&#8221;, which burst forth with light at random times and featured <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> huddled in a snow cave ready to take pictures. The problem? It was missing a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> tree, cheery elves, traditional <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">lights<\/a>, or anything else commonly associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>. One shopper claimed she couldn&#8217;t even find the word <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> on any of the signage around the display. Just <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> on ice, that was all. <\/p>\n<p>By Saturday the mall agreed to put up a tree but on Sunday workers showed up, dismantled the display and hauled it off to wherever it came from. The mall management now says<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After listening to customer feedback,  Simon made the decision to remove the modern, interactive <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Santa<\/a> set that was installed at SouthPark and replace them with traditional d\u00e9cor that centers around <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> trees. Our focus is on \u2018Spreading Love\u2019 which is the theme throughout all of our shopping centers during the holiday season and we are looking forward to celebrating the holidays with our shoppers as we do every year. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does that end the backlash?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe for South Park Mall. But there are at least six other malls with the same display &#8212; and the same level of outrage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The management of South Park Mall in Charlotte, North Carolina got the message loud and clear: nobody liked Santa&#8217;s new digs this year. As reported earlier, the mall erected a new Santa set called the &#8220;Glacier Santa Experience&#8221;, which burst forth with light at random times and featured Santa huddled in a snow cave ready [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23528,"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":[28,2],"tags":[417],"class_list":["post-23527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-news","tag-christmas-outrage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527","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=23527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}