{"id":23202,"date":"2010-11-28T14:45:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T22:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=23202"},"modified":"2011-12-01T16:15:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T00:15:28","slug":"red-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/23202","title":{"rendered":"Red Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/NastSanta01.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;One of the most iconic drawings of Santa, it is also in the public domain.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Credit for the visual development of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Santa_Claus\"target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Santa Claus&#8217;<\/a> goes to illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/22125\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Nast<\/a> (1840-1902).<\/p>\n<p>And one of Nast&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billcasselman.com\/wintergram_archive\/nast_santa.htm\"target=\"_blank\">most famous drawings<\/a> &#8211; from the January 1, 1881 edition of <em>Harper&#8217;s Weekly<\/em> (above) &#8211; has this habit of showing up in odd places every holiday season. Some original, some reinterpretations.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen it appear on everything from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/jolly_santa_claus_by_thomas_nast_mug_no_1-168629353976267296\"target=\"_blank\">mugs<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/+save_santa_gift_shop_tee,40154097\"target=\"_blank\">tees<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/hgU3VP\"target=\"_blank\">gift bags<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/34219347\/vintage-santa-glass-tile-necklace\"target=\"_blank\">necklaces<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/classic_santa_claus_image_ornament-175112184491689082\"target=\"_blank\">ornaments.<\/a> With the iconic red suit (which was <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.answers.com\/Q\/What_is_the_original_color_of_Santa_Claus%27s_suit_before_it_became_red_in_the_Coca-Cola_ads\"target=\"_blank\">actually developed<\/a> by the Coca-Cola Company) added to some of the versions. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/NastSanta05.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>Animated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norfolkmouse.com\/PreviewCards\/Preview0050.php\"target=\"_blank\">online greeting card<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pictured are a few interpretations I found online. Wonder how many other versions actually exist.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/NastSanta02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/NastSanta08.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/NastSanta03.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/NastSanta04.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/NastSanta07.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/NastSanta09.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/NastSanta06.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>Glass<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baxterglass.com\/feature_santa.php\"target=\"_blank\"> medallion<\/a> and gnome<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Red Santa\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/23202\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;One of the most iconic drawings of Santa, it is also in the public domain.&#8217; Credit for the visual development of &#8216;Santa Claus&#8217; goes to illustrator Thomas Nast (1840-1902). And one of Nast&#8217;s most famous drawings &#8211; from the January 1, 1881 edition of Harper&#8217;s Weekly (above) &#8211; has this habit of showing up in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,54,51],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-23202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design-history","category-illustration","tag-illustration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23202"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30486,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23202\/revisions\/30486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}