{"id":293982,"date":"2018-12-18T09:05:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=293982"},"modified":"2018-12-18T09:05:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T14:05:04","slug":"watch-meet-the-official-santa-of-jerusalem-and-his-camel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2018\/12\/watch-meet-the-official-santa-of-jerusalem-and-his-camel\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Meet the official Santa of Jerusalem \u2014 and his camel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This is awesome:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

He has a certificate from Santa School in Denver, Colorado, but Issa Kassissieh doesn\u2019t come down the chimney in America \u2013 he\u2019s the resident Father Christmas in Jerusalem\u2019s Old City and he\u2019s traded the traditional reindeer sleigh for a camel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Check out the video below. You\u2019ve probably never seen anything quite like it.<\/p>\n
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You\u2019ve probably never seen anything quite like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":293988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[237,964],"class_list":["post-293982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazing-video","tag-christmas","tag-jerusalem"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>WATCH: Meet the official Santa of Jerusalem \u2014 and his camel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This is awesome:\u00a0 He has a certificate from Santa School in Denver, Colorado, but Issa Kassissieh doesn\u2019t come down the chimney in America \u2013 he\u2019s the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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