{"id":658338,"date":"2020-06-17T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658338"},"modified":"2020-06-17T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T18:00:02","slug":"is-santa-real-examining-childrens-beliefs-in-cultural-figures-and-non-real-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658338","title":{"rendered":"Is Santa real? Examining children&#039;s beliefs in cultural figures and &#039;non-real&#039; people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young children understand dinosaurs and The Wiggles are (or were!) real, and that fictional characters like Peter Pan and Spongebob are not real\u2014but cultural figures like Santa or the Tooth Fairy occupy an ambiguous place in a child&#8217;s pantheon, suggests a study published June 17, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Rohan Kapit\u00e1ny from Keele University, and colleagues.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-06-santa-real-children-beliefs-cultural.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Is Santa real? Examining children&#8217;s beliefs in cultural figures and &#8216;non-real&#8217; people<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young children understand dinosaurs and The Wiggles are (or were!) real, and that fictional characters like Peter Pan and Spongebob are not real\u2014but cultural figures like Santa or the Tooth&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}