{"id":127,"date":"2008-02-12T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/02\/12\/the-downside-of-religious-marketing\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T17:39:00","slug":"the-downside-of-religious-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/02\/12\/the-downside-of-religious-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"The downside of religious marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/vwxynot.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/holy-penne-batman.html\">holy pasta <\/a>story, here&#8217;s some news from the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/asia-pacific\/7241296.stm\">BBC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/cp\/Oddities\/080212\/K021202AU.html\">CBC<\/a> about a line of religiously themed cosmetics that was pulled from sale in Singapore. Apparently the large Christian population was offended by the &#8220;Looking Good for Jesus&#8221; product range.<\/p>\n<p>Any unopened bottles of the &#8220;Get Tight with Christ&#8221; hand and body cream (WTF?!!) must be collectors&#8217; items by now. I might have to go and check eBay.<\/p>\n<p>You couldn&#8217;t make this stuff up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from last week&#8217;s holy pasta story, here&#8217;s some news from the BBC and CBC about a line of religiously themed cosmetics that was pulled from sale in Singapore. Apparently the large Christian population was offended by the &#8220;Looking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/02\/12\/the-downside-of-religious-marketing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}