{"id":16796,"date":"2009-12-20T04:09:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T04:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/smh_controversial_new_zealand_billboard_by_anglican_parish_removed\/"},"modified":"2009-12-20T04:09:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T04:09:55","slug":"smh_controversial_new_zealand_billboard_by_anglican_parish_removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16796","title":{"rendered":"SMH: Controversial New Zealand billboard by Anglican Parish removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AN INNER-CITY Auckland church, trying to promote debate over Christianity, has given up on a controversial billboard which made international headlines.<\/p>\n<p>The billboard, featuring a dejected Joseph and a quizzical Mary in bed, with the message, &#8221;Poor Joseph. God was a hard act to follow&#8221;, has been attacked four times since it was erected outside the Anglican church on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>After the latest attack, by an elderly woman with a knife, the church said the billboard would not be replaced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/sexy-god-billboard-removed-20091219-l6oq.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN INNER-CITY Auckland church, trying to promote debate over Christianity, has given up on a controversial billboard which made international headlines. The billboard, featuring a dejected Joseph and a quizzical Mary in bed, with the message, &#8221;Poor Joseph. God was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16796\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,39,399,74,575,187,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-church-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-and-polynesia","category-anglican-provinces","category-christmas","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}