{"id":60691,"date":"2013-12-21T22:52:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T18:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=60691"},"modified":"2013-12-21T22:52:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T18:52:56","slug":"swedish-christmas-goat-engulfed-in-flames-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=60691","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Christmas Goat Engulfed in Flames &#8211; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Swedish-Christmas-Goat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-60688\" alt=\"\u0547\u057e\u0565\u0564\u056b\u0561, \u0561\u0574\u0561\u0576\u0578\u0580\u0575\u0561 \u056e\u0572\u0578\u057f\u0565 \u0561\u0575\u056e\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Swedish-Christmas-Goat.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Swedish-Christmas-Goat.jpg 560w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Swedish-Christmas-Goat-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Swedish-Christmas-Goat-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vandals in Sweden have burned down for the 27th time a giant straw goat meant to symbolize Christmas spirit.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-meter (43-foot) high and 3.6-ton heavy straw goat was engulfed in flames early Saturday after unidentified assailants attacked it in the Swedish town of Gavle, 150 kilometers (90 miles) north of Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sweden-christmas-goat1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-60689\" alt=\"\u0547\u057e\u0565\u0564\u056b\u0561, \u0561\u0574\u0561\u0576\u0578\u0580\u0575\u0561 \u056e\u0572\u0578\u057f\u0565 \u0561\u0575\u056e\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sweden-christmas-goat1.jpg\" width=\"558\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sweden-christmas-goat1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sweden-christmas-goat1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sweden-christmas-goat1-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The straw goat is a centuries-old Scandinavian yule symbol that preceded Santa Claus as the bringer of gifts.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1966, when the tradition of erecting the giant straw goat in the town square was introduced, Vandals have burnt it down 27 times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Vandals in Sweden have burned down for the 27th time a giant straw goat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":60689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[5134],"class_list":["post-60691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-swedish-christmas-goat","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}