{"id":126475,"date":"2026-07-09T19:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/126475\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:01:13","slug":"its-a-very-merry-july-from-denmarks-world-santa-claus-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/126475\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a very merry July from Denmark&#8217;s World Santa Claus Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As central and southern Europe grapple with extreme heat, it&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Denmark. Dozens of people dressed as Santa, Mrs. Claus and elves from around the world have descended on Aalborg &#8211; Denmark&#8217;s fourth largest city &#8211; for the nation&#8217;s annual World Santa Claus Congress. It&#8217;s a colorful midsummer tradition that has delighted onlookers for decades. (AP video shot by: James Brooks)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As central and southern Europe grapple with extreme heat, it&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,26,58532,4177,52318],"class_list":["post-126475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-extreme-heat","tag-santa","tag-southern-europe"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116891568324830353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}