{"id":1224,"date":"2008-05-07T23:54:53","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T03:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2008-05-07T23:54:53","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T03:54:53","slug":"crazy-religious-people-have-their-priorities-in-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/07\/crazy-religious-people-have-their-priorities-in-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy religious people have their priorities in order"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080505\/lf_afp\/usreligionpovertyenergyoil\">Tired of paying through the nose, Americans try praying at the pump<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Lord, the prices at this pump have gone up since last week. We know that you are able, that you have all the power in the world,&#8221; he prayed, before former beauty queen Rashida Jolley led the group in a modified version of the spiritual, &#8220;We Shall Overcome&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll have lower gas prices, we&#8217;ll have lower gas prices&#8230;&#8221; they sang.<\/p>\n<p>At the weekend, Twyman had led a group of around 200 people in prayer at pumps in San Francisco, where gas is touching the four-dollars-a-gallon mark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yup, that&#8217;s got to be the most important thing we could ask the Divine Creator for. Can&#8217;t think of anything higher priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Tired of paying through the nose, Americans try praying at the pump &#8220;Lord, the prices at this pump have gone up since last week. We know that you are able, that you have all the power in the world,&#8221; he prayed, before former beauty queen Rashida Jolley led the group in a modified version of the spiritual, &#8220;We Shall Overcome&#8221;.&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/07\/crazy-religious-people-have-their-priorities-in-order\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,40,107],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-explodes","tag-i-hate-humans","tag-oil","tag-religion","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-jK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}