{"id":20785,"date":"2013-12-20T10:07:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T15:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20785"},"modified":"2013-12-20T10:07:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T15:07:05","slug":"florida-rejects-monument-to-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/florida-rejects-monument-to-satan\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida rejects monument to Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead, it has opted to mock Christianity with a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Festivus#Festivus_pole\" target=\"_blank\">Festivus pole<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venganza.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a> display. I\u2019m sure Christians will not only manage to withstand the onslaught but draw sustenance from observing how adrift in banality a civilisation can become when it abandons the truth upon which it was founded.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2013\/12\/20\/florida-rejects-group-bid-to-install-satanic-display\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Satanic group&#8217;s bid to put up a display at the Florida Capitol is being rejected by state authorities.<\/p>\n<p>During this year&#8217;s holiday season several groups have allowed to put up displays in the rotunda because the area is considered a &#8220;public forum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Nativity scene has been installed as well as a six-foot Festivus pole with beer cans around it. State officials this week also approved a display from a group called the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.<\/p>\n<p>But a request from a group calling itself The Satanic Temple has been denied.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead, it has opted to mock Christianity with a Festivus pole and a Flying Spaghetti Monster display. I\u2019m sure Christians will not only manage to withstand the onslaught but draw sustenance from observing how adrift in banality a civilisation can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/florida-rejects-monument-to-satan\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[2080,1739,1737,1738,1399],"class_list":["post-20785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-christianity","tag-festivus-pole","tag-florida","tag-flying-spaghetti-monster","tag-satanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20785","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=20785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}