{"id":42287,"date":"2014-01-27T19:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T19:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_cathy_grossman-why_do_we_buy_into_pop_stars_pubescent_piety\/"},"modified":"2014-01-27T19:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T19:00:37","slug":"rns_cathy_grossman-why_do_we_buy_into_pop_stars_pubescent_piety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42287","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Cathy Grossman&#8211;Why do we buy into pop stars\u2019 pubescent piety?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Justin Bieber is..] 19 and peeling rubber in a rented yellow Lamborghini, drag racing in Miami Beach before dawn Thursday and flunking a street-side sobriety test, according to a police report.<\/p>\n<p>Are his global followers, the Beliebers, still around to read this and weep? Do they even care or have they moved on to other idols of self-expression? (Miley, anyone?) Maybe they have found Bono, who once said, as Falsani noted: \u201cThere\u2019s nothing worse than a rock star with a cause \u201d\u00a6 But celebrity is currency and we want to spend it this way.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly not easy to be a celebrity in popular culture and still be taken seriously as a person who practices a religion \u201d\u201d Christian or any other faith \u201d\u201d in word and deed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cathylynngrossman.religionnews.com\/2014\/01\/23\/bieber-arrested-dui-beliebers-evangelical\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Justin Bieber is..] 19 and peeling rubber in a rented yellow Lamborghini, drag racing in Miami Beach before dawn Thursday and flunking a street-side sobriety test, according to a police report. Are his global followers, the Beliebers, still around to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42287\">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":[39,175,168,89,93,132,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-media","category-movies-television","category-music","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42287","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=42287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}