{"id":2078,"date":"2010-12-21T03:33:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T08:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2025-12-21T20:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:11:07","slug":"hey-kids-its-santa-klaus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/12\/21\/hey-kids-its-santa-klaus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Kids! It&#8217;s Santa Klaus!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/12\/21\/hey-kids-its-santa-klaus\/santa-klaus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2079\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/12\/21\/hey-kids-its-santa-klaus\/santa-klaus\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Santa-Klaus.jpg?fit=385%2C778&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"385,778\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Santa-Klaus\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Santa-Klaus.jpg?fit=385%2C778&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2079 size-full\" title=\"Santa-Klaus\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Santa-Klaus.jpg?resize=385%2C778&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Santa-Klaus.jpg?w=385&amp;ssl=1 385w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Santa-Klaus.jpg?resize=148%2C300&amp;ssl=1 148w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is my Christmas card from 1986. Xerox copies, newspaper letters, ink spattered with a toothbrush and <strong>Klaus Kinski<\/strong>. It&#8217;s what Christmas is all about! <!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The mark of quality!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SkidMark.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2081\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/12\/21\/hey-kids-its-santa-klaus\/skidmark\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SkidMark.jpg?fit=300%2C267&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,267\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SkidMark\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SkidMark.jpg?fit=300%2C267&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2081\" title=\"SkidMark\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/SkidMark.jpg?resize=300%2C267&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my Christmas card from 1986. Xerox copies, newspaper letters, ink spattered with a toothbrush and Klaus Kinski. It&#8217;s what Christmas is all about!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,18,176],"tags":[221,86,220,43,5,219,215,1010,216,217,218],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-drawer-cards","category-holiday","tag-221","tag-christmas","tag-german-cinema","tag-humor","tag-joe-williams","tag-klaus-kinski","tag-punk-rock","tag-santa-klaus","tag-spatter","tag-splatter","tag-xerox"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Santa-Klaus.jpg?fit=385%2C778&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-xw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23356,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/03\/06\/almost-all-of-them-flops\/","url_meta":{"origin":2078,"position":0},"title":"Almost All of Them Flops","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"March 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a nicely printed flyer that was handed out at a comic book convention in the very early 1980s. 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