{"id":23789,"date":"2016-02-10T16:45:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T21:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23789"},"modified":"2016-02-10T16:45:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T21:45:15","slug":"ashes-to-go-supersize-that-for-me-and-add-some-fries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/ashes-to-go-supersize-that-for-me-and-add-some-fries\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes to go \u2013 supersize that for me and add some fries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Anglican Church of Canada parishes have jumped on the bandwagon of offering passersby in the street ashes on the forehead; it\u2019s called <em>ashes to go.<\/em> For those who doubt the validity or efficacy of such antics \u2013 it has at least partially satiated the ACoC\u2019s craving for <em>relevance:<\/em> it has its own hashtag, #ashestogo<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23790\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AtoG-842x1024.jpg\" alt=\"AtoG\" width=\"584\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AtoG-842x1024.jpg 842w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AtoG-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AtoG-768x934.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/AtoG.jpg 1039w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Much as I favour taking the Gospel out of church buildings to the world, I suspect this is more a case of turning a liturgical expression of our faith into buskers disguised as <span class=\"st\">Nazg\u00fbl performing <\/span>street theatre, having first carefully emptied it of all meaning lest it cause offence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Anglican Church of Canada parishes have jumped on the bandwagon of offering passersby in the street ashes on the forehead; it\u2019s called ashes to go. For those who doubt the validity or efficacy of such antics \u2013 it has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/ashes-to-go-supersize-that-for-me-and-add-some-fries\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2347,2032],"class_list":["post-23789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-ashestogo","tag-anglican-church-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23789","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=23789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}