{"id":99869,"date":"2017-04-18T00:43:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T07:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=99869"},"modified":"2017-04-14T11:50:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T18:50:56","slug":"good-for-tesco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/04\/good-for-tesco.html","title":{"rendered":"Good for TESCO!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>So last week, in postmodern Britain, a company called TESCO, clearly innocent of even the most rudimentary familiarity with Christianity, announced a sale on beer and wine with the sunny proclamation \u201cGood Friday just got better!\u201d  It ranks higher than \u201cHam!  Perfect for Hanukkah\u201d on the Religious Cluelessness Richter Scale.<\/p>\n<p>Christian in Britain (and around the world) registered a collective facepalm that was, in turn, picked up seismographs across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Result: TESCO, showing United Airlines how it is done, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/04\/13\/tesco-apologies-good-friday-beer-advert-christians-complain\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">acknowledged the screwup and apologized<\/a>.  Well done TESCO!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So last week, in postmodern Britain, a company called TESCO, clearly innocent of even the most rudimentary familiarity with Christianity, announced a sale on beer and wine with the sunny proclamation \u201cGood Friday just got better!\u201d It ranks higher than \u201cHam! Perfect for Hanukkah\u201d on the Religious Cluelessness Richter Scale. 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