{"id":147,"date":"2004-07-05T22:09:20","date_gmt":"2004-07-06T05:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2004-07-05T22:09:20","modified_gmt":"2004-07-06T05:09:20","slug":"do-the-jew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/05\/do-the-jew\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the Jew?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, so I’m reading this NYT article<\/a> about Christian hipster t-shirts and what not. <\/p>\n

“I travel to all the festivals, dozens of them, all summer long, then I do smaller events in California during winter,” Mr. Lula said, standing over T-shirts that read, “Hardcore Christian,” “Hetero-Boy” and “Religion Is Dead. Jesus Is Not.” He said he was not simply selling concert souvenirs. “I feel I’m getting the word of God out,” he said. <\/i><\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

T-shirts screamed or punned for attention. One shirt declared, “Body Piercing Saved My Life,” and showed a hand with a nail through it. Other brisk-sellers said “Jesus Freak” . . .<\/i><\/p>\n

and then the really weird thing:<\/p>\n

or mimicked the Mountain Dew advertising logo, tweaking the slogan to read, “Do the Jew,” meaning to emulate Jesus. Booths promoted Christian colleges, foreign missions and a DVD player that skips over racy material in movies.<\/i><\/p>\n

When I think of that, given the context of hipster t-shirts, it sounds like they’re trying to incite people to have sex with Jews. Or am I crazy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, so I’m reading this NYT article about Christian hipster t-shirts and what not. “I travel to all the festivals, dozens of them, all summer long, then I do smaller events in California during winter,” Mr. Lula said, standing over T-shirts that read, “Hardcore Christian,” “Hetero-Boy” and “Religion Is Dead. Jesus Is Not.” He said he was not simply selling concert souvenirs. “I feel I’m getting the word of God out,” he said. . . . T-shirts screamed or punned…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","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":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-tech","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-2n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}