{"id":16994,"date":"2012-07-25T13:39:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T17:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16994"},"modified":"2012-07-25T13:39:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T17:39:21","slug":"hotel-replaces-bibles-with-trashy-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/hotel-replaces-bibles-with-trashy-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel replaces Bibles with trashy novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hotel owner helpfully explained that, since private bedrooms are no place for Bibles, he has replaced them with tenth-rate pornography. No, I haven\u2019t read <em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em> and have no intention of doing so even if its popularity does suggest that, contrary to expectations, it may actually be third-rate pornography.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, I\u2019d rather read the Song of Songs.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/travel\/2012\/07\/25\/hotel-replaces-bible-with-50-shades-grey-420750936\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A hotel in England has replaced in-room bibles with the erotic bestseller &#8220;50 Shades of Grey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead of the standard Gideon bible, the owner of Damson Dene opted for the steamy novel known for its explicit sexual content because he thought it was the hospitable thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause everybody is reading \u2018Fifty Shades of Grey,\u2019 we thought it would be a hospitable thing to do, to have this available for our guests, especially if some of them were a little bit shy about buying it because of its reputation,&#8221; hotel owner Jonathan Denby told NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel said it discretely stashes the bestseller in the bedside table for guests to discover &#8211;the place one reserved for the bible.<\/p>\n<p>Denby\u00a0 told NBC he found religious books a \u201cwholly inappropriate\u201d choice for private bedrooms in England\u2019s modern, secular society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hotel owner helpfully explained that, since private bedrooms are no place for Bibles, he has replaced them with tenth-rate pornography. No, I haven\u2019t read Fifty Shades of Grey and have no intention of doing so even if its popularity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/hotel-replaces-bibles-with-trashy-novel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[757],"class_list":["post-16994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pornography","tag-fifty-shades-of-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}