{"id":650327,"date":"2010-02-01T11:38:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T16:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21210"},"modified":"2010-02-01T11:38:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T16:38:51","slug":"god-hates-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/650327","title":{"rendered":"God Hates Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.asylum.com\/media\/2010\/01\/a5.jpg?w=185\" class=\"alignright\"  \/> Kansas&#8217;s Westboro Baptist Church has become famous for holding no-holds-barred protests at funerals and places of worship. But just because you believe that modern America is a hell-bound bastion of sin, doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t connect with the youth culture. First there was last month&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/2010\/01\/westboro-baptist-church-covers-lady-gaga\/\">Lady Gaga cover<\/a>; now they&#8217;ve begun protesting outside of Twitter&#8217;s headquarters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asylum.com\/2010\/01\/29\/westboro-baptist-church-protests-gets-protested-outside-twitter\/\">in San Francisco<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Twitter should be used to tell the punks of doomed America that God hates you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The religious group, based in Topeka, Kansas, usually pickets soldiers&#8217; funerals, reasoning that they died defending a gay-loving country. Thursday, they set their sights on a larger target: the headquarters of the social-media giant Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone played their part as the Westboro Baptist Church immediately antagonized the crowd of several dozen with a rousing chorus of &#8220;God Hates America,&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas&#8217;s Westboro Baptist Church has become famous for holding no-holds-barred protests at funerals and places of worship. But just because you believe that modern America is a hell-bound bastion of sin, doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t connect with the youth culture. First there was last month&#8217;s Lady Gaga cover; now they&#8217;ve begun protesting outside of Twitter&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Jb9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}