{"id":6747,"date":"2010-12-06T09:12:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T13:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6747"},"modified":"2010-12-06T10:35:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T14:35:58","slug":"reindeer-determined-to-shed-that-pesky-child-friendly-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/06\/reindeer-determined-to-shed-that-pesky-child-friendly-reputation\/","title":{"rendered":"Reindeer determined to shed that pesky “child-friendly” reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Fay<\/a> reports on an unpleasant meeting between rambler and reindeer:<\/p>\n

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Children are advised to hide under the duvet if they hear sleighbells this Christmas Eve, after it emerged that reindeers appear to have developed a taste for human flesh.<\/p>\n

The reindeer’s ability to transform from Santa’s little helper to ravening maneater was illustrated by the tale of a 57-year-old woman who was subjected to a terrifying two-hour assault from a juvenile male last month.<\/p>\n

Pat Cook was walking in the Cromdale Hills near Grantown-on-Spey when the juvenile bull separated himself from the rest of the UK’s only reindeer herd and began stalking her.<\/p>\n

As she reached the summit of the hill, he pounced, knocking her to the ground.<\/p>\n

Cook told The Scotsman<\/em>: “One of my walking poles was thrown into the air. The reindeer kept trying to stick its antlers into me, but I managed to brace my feet on them.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You’d really<\/em> better watch out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Fay reports on an unpleasant meeting between rambler and reindeer: Children are advised to hide under the duvet if they hear sleighbells this Christmas Eve, after it emerged that reindeers appear to have developed a taste for human flesh. The reindeer’s ability to transform from Santa’s little helper to ravening maneater was illustrated by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":""},"categories":[4,73],"tags":[345,239,338],"class_list":["post-6747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-randomness","tag-christmas","tag-scary","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1KP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6748,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6747\/revisions\/6748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}