{"id":853,"date":"2007-04-05T23:34:16","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T03:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/05\/good-friday-part-2\/"},"modified":"2007-04-05T23:34:16","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T03:34:16","slug":"good-friday-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/05\/good-friday-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, you can&#8217;t make up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/local\/hc-naugfight,0,2219066.story?coll=hc-headlines-local\">stuff like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The owner of a photo store, who says her business partner is Jesus, began Holy Week by putting signs outside her store urging passing motorists to show their support for the Christian holiday. &#8220;Easter: Beep for Christ,&#8221; the signs said.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Young, owner of a neighboring tattoo store, soon after put out a sign urging motorists to honk twice for Satan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For my money, this is the best part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Soden, who keeps a Bible on her countertop and displays on her wall a business partnership agreement between her and Jesus, said she was not bothered by Young&#8217;s posted image of Satan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It didn&#8217;t offend me, but I know it offended Christ,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m a cocky atheist, but still, these people who are so extreme in their simplistic cartoon version of religion just crack me up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/object\/dip?o=2&#038;f=\/g\/archive\/2007\/04\/03\/dip.DTL\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/04\/honk.jpg\" width=\"402\" height=\"314\" alt=\"Honk\" title=\"Honk\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">You know, you can&#8217;t make up stuff like this: The owner of a photo store, who says her business partner is Jesus, began Holy Week by putting signs outside her store urging passing motorists to show their support for the Christian holiday. &#8220;Easter: Beep for Christ,&#8221; the signs said. Phil Young, owner of a neighboring tattoo store, soon after put&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/05\/good-friday-part-2\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-dL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","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=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}