{"id":25723,"date":"2011-04-19T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_zealand_anglican_church_pushes_envelope_with_latest_billboard\/"},"modified":"2011-04-19T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T17:00:07","slug":"new_zealand_anglican_church_pushes_envelope_with_latest_billboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25723","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Anglican Church &#39;pushes envelope&#39; with latest billboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new billboard outside Auckland&#8217;s St Matthew-in-the-City aims to prove you can&#8217;t put all Christians in the same box, the church&#8217;s priest-in-charge says.<\/p>\n<p>In response to recent Hell Pizza billboards advertising its hot cross buns with the tagline: &#8220;For a limited time. A bit like Jesus&#8221;, the latest St Matthew billboard reads: &#8220;Hell no, we&#8217;re not giving up pizza for Lent&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Priest-in-charge Clay Nelson said the idea for the billboard came after reading a Herald story where Anglican Church media officer Lloyd Ashton said the billboards were &#8220;disrespectful to what a lot of people hold very dear&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&#038;objectid=10720379\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new billboard outside Auckland&#8217;s St Matthew-in-the-City aims to prove you can&#8217;t put all Christians in the same box, the church&#8217;s priest-in-charge says. In response to recent Hell Pizza billboards advertising its hot cross buns with the tagline: &#8220;For a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25723\">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":[36,48,39,50,399,74,204,89,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-and-polynesia","category-anglican-provinces","category-australia-nz","category-media","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25723","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=25723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}