{"id":15114,"date":"2012-12-26T07:15:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T14:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15114"},"modified":"2012-12-26T07:18:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T14:18:56","slug":"austin-state-troopers-arrest-kris-kringle-for-acts-of-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15114","title":{"rendered":"Austin State Troopers Arrest Kris Kringle for Acts of Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Austin Cops Arrest Santa For Being Nice and Chalking &#8216;Peace&#8217; on Sidewalk<\/strong><br \/>\nby Abby Zimet &#8211; Common Dreams &#8211; 24 December, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Occupy Austin held a rally for &#8220;acclaimed Arctic peace activist Kris Kringle&#8221; after he was arrested by Texas state troopers for chalking incendiary words like \u2018Community,\u2019 \u2018Peace,\u2019 \u2018Grace\u2019 and &#8216;Friendship&#8217; on the sidewalk with children who had gathered for the event. After wrestling Santa to the ground and handcuffing him, more and more (visibly sheepish) troopers arrive, pushing back bystanders and eventually arresting an elf for chalking \u201cFree Santa.\u201d Videos by unhappy incredulous observers shouting, &#8220;You&#8217;re arresting Santa Claus?!&#8221; Maybe Texas should secede after all.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q8AYLwFQk_U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u2Wzao_2PSI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D15114&amp;text=Austin+State+Troopers+Arrest+Kris+Kringle+for+Acts+of+Kindness&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Cops Arrest Santa For Being Nice and Chalking &#8216;Peace&#8217; on Sidewalk by Abby Zimet &#8211; Common Dreams &#8211; 24 December, 2012 Occupy Austin held a rally for &#8220;acclaimed Arctic peace activist Kris Kringle&#8221; after he was arrested by Texas state troopers for chalking incendiary words like \u2018Community,\u2019 \u2018Peace,\u2019 \u2018Grace\u2019 and &#8216;Friendship&#8217; on the sidewalk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=15114#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3855],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15117,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15114\/revisions\/15117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}