{"id":17513,"date":"2011-12-24T15:34:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T21:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=17513"},"modified":"2011-12-24T15:34:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T21:34:25","slug":"its-christmas-eve-boys-and-girls-be-good-or-the-krampus-will-whip-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/its-christmas-eve-boys-and-girls-be-good-or-the-krampus-will-whip-you\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Christmas Eve, Boys and Girls. Be Good or the Krampus Will Whip You."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitterer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ronsalas\/status\/146294616352751616\" class=\"external external_icon\">@RonSalas<\/a> retweeted an old Christmas card <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/calamityjon\" class=\"external external_icon\">@CalamityJon <\/a>created a few years ago.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/rPEgCBA6\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/471011833-e1323920530132.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Be good for goodness sake... or the Krampus will whip the crap out of you.\" width=\"599\" height=\"431\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17514\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Krampus\" class=\"external external_icon\">Krampus <\/a>is an old myth that the <a href=\"http:\/\/video.adultswim.com\/the-venture-bros\/punishing-the-wicked.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Venture Brothers<\/a> introduced us to a few years ago. Take a walk through YouTube and you&#8217;ll find tons of contemporary parade and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IEsEC8urxWk\" class=\"external external_icon\">Traditional Krampus<\/a> videos all up in there.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/i.adultswim.com\/adultswim\/video3\/tools\/swf\/viralplayer.swf\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/i.adultswim.com\/adultswim\/video3\/tools\/swf\/viralplayer.swf\"\/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"id=e00357404f60b3a2b7d0d10d019d131b\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/i.adultswim.com\/adultswim\/video3\/tools\/swf\/viralplayer.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" FlashVars=\"id=e00357404f60b3a2b7d0d10d019d131b\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Now imagine our surprise when <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/groonk\/status\/146057052928737281\" class=\"external external_icon\">we learned<\/a> obscure mythologist writer most extraordinary, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/neilhimself\/status\/146052112630030336\" class=\"external external_icon\">Neil Gaiman, did not know<\/a> of the Krampus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-in-reply-to=\"146052112630030336\">\n<p>@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neilhimself\" class=\"external external_icon\">neilhimself<\/a> whaaaa?!Really?!*I* knew about Krampus&#8230; how can this be?! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%2523DogsAndCatsLivingTogether\" class=\"external external_icon\">#DogsAndCatsLivingTogether<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%2523NothingMakesSenseAnymore\" class=\"external external_icon\">#NothingMakesSenseAnymore<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rantz Hoseley (@RantzHoseley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RantzHoseley\/status\/146054429953638400\" data-datetime=\"2011-12-12T02:31:04+00:00\" class=\"external external_icon\">December 12, 2011<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still reeling from this revelation. Reality as we know it may never recover.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ronsalas\/status\/146294616352751616\" class=\"external external_icon\">@ronsalas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitterer @RonSalas retweeted an old Christmas card @CalamityJon created a few years ago. The Krampus is an old myth that the Venture Brothers introduced us to a few years ago. Take a walk through YouTube and you&#8217;ll find tons of contemporary parade and Traditional Krampus videos all up in there. Now imagine our surprise when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,55,17,48],"tags":[2131,4938,4719,4753,706,31,2298,4720,4752,4718,24,2732,574,475],"class_list":["post-17513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-artist","category-history","category-holiday","tag-art-out-moments","tag-artist","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-card","tag-creepy-christmas","tag-culture","tag-fan-made","tag-folk-tale","tag-gruss-von-krampus","tag-krampus","tag-myth","tag-mythology","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-tweet-find"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17513"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17598,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513\/revisions\/17598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}