{"id":2186,"date":"2010-06-15T20:24:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T00:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2010-06-15T20:24:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T00:24:54","slug":"this-just-in-god-smites-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/this-just-in-god-smites-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"This Just In:  God Smites Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All bets are off now folks. \u00c2\u00a0Change is afoot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/06-15-ohio-jesus_full_600.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2187\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/this-just-in-god-smites-jesus\/06-15-ohio-jesus_full_600\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/06-15-ohio-jesus_full_600.gif\" data-orig-size=\"600,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"I&amp;#8217;m open!\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/06-15-ohio-jesus_full_600.gif\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2187 alignright\" title=\"I'm open!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/06-15-ohio-jesus_full_600.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/06-15-ohio-jesus_full_600.gif 600w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/06-15-ohio-jesus_full_600-300x200.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An enormous 62 foot tall statue of Jesus that the Ohio locals called &#8220;Touchdown Jesus&#8221; for obvious reasons was smoten recently by lightning and burned entirely, revealing our new lord Clippy, the helpful wire character from MS Office 97.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cRaaf1D_tnM&amp;feature=player_embedded<\/p>\n<p>It seems that the folks at the church are taking this fairly seriously, you might even go as far as to call this a &#8220;sign&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Also, perhaps I ought to be a tad more careful about mocking our new wireframe saviour. \u00c2\u00a0In God&#8217;s defence, it does SORT of look like Jesus is waiting for something to come from the sky, maybe he just has a sense of humour.<\/p>\n<p>Um, I&#8217;m done now.<\/p>\n<p>Saw this tonight on <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/w92nL8LEssA\/lightning-strikes-ma.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All bets are off now folks. \u00c2\u00a0Change is afoot. An enormous 62 foot tall statue of Jesus that the Ohio locals called &#8220;Touchdown Jesus&#8221; for obvious reasons was smoten recently by lightning and burned entirely, revealing our new lord Clippy, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/this-just-in-god-smites-jesus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[4],"tags":[259],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse-soon","tag-false-idols-etc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-zg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}