{"id":19664,"date":"2013-06-25T15:31:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T19:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=19664"},"modified":"2013-06-25T15:31:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T19:31:27","slug":"church-installs-vending-machine-for-the-easy-purchase-of-religious-paraphernalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-installs-vending-machine-for-the-easy-purchase-of-religious-paraphernalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Church installs vending machine for the easy purchase of religious paraphernalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2347984\/Worlds-religious-vending-machine-installed-church-sell-holy-accessories-worshippers.html?ITO=1490&amp;ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19665\" alt=\"Holy Vendor\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Holy-Vendor.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"275\" \/>The world&#8217;s first religious vending machine has been installed in a church to allow worshippers to buy holy accessories before attending a service.<\/p>\n<p>Churchgoers can now buy rosary beads and armbands with religious motifs before taking their seat inside their place of worship.<\/p>\n<p>The machine was the brainchild of pastoral assistant Sebastian Fiebig at the St. Joseph Church, in Hamburg, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>He designed the machine and believes it is a fun idea.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old said: &#8216;I walked passed a vending machine for umbrellas a long time ago and it was then that I came up with the idea to make one for the church.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I purchased an old vending machine on the internet, repaired it, gave it a new coat of paint and then filled it with the rosaries and armbands.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>After putting the money in the slot, a white cardboard box drops into your hands, and the wooden rosary is inside.<\/p>\n<p>A wooden armband with religious motifs will set you back two euros and features images of Jesus, Maria and the Pope.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just me &#8211; and I don&#8217;t want to give North American Anglican Churches any ideas &#8211; but that looks as if it was once a condom dispenser of the kind one encounters in airport bathrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The world&#8217;s first religious vending machine has been installed in a church to allow worshippers to buy holy accessories before attending a service. Churchgoers can now buy rosary beads and armbands with religious motifs before taking their seat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-installs-vending-machine-for-the-easy-purchase-of-religious-paraphernalia\/\">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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[1463],"class_list":["post-19664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roman-catholicism","tag-st-joseph-church-hamburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19664","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=19664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}