{"id":2197,"date":"2011-10-07T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/2011\/10\/07\/westboro-baptist-fail\/"},"modified":"2011-10-07T23:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T03:22:00","slug":"westboro-baptist-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/10\/westboro-baptist-fail.html","title":{"rendered":"Westboro Baptist FAIL"},"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>I had seen several people mention this tweet from Westboro Baptist Church before, but didn\u2019t notice until <a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/mikeflynn\/2011\/10\/05\/westboro-church-announces-protest-of-steve-jobs-funeral-on-the-iphone\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this blog pointed it out the ironic detail at the bottom<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/biggovernment.com\/files\/2011\/10\/Phelps-morons.jpg\" alt=\"Phelps Fail\" width=\"450\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had seen several people mention this tweet from Westboro Baptist Church before, but didn\u2019t notice until this blog pointed it out the ironic detail at the bottom\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,42,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundamentalism-religion","category-humor","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Westboro Baptist FAIL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I had seen several people mention this tweet from Westboro Baptist Church before, but didn&#039;t notice until this blog pointed it out the ironic detail at\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/10\/westboro-baptist-fail.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Westboro Baptist FAIL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I had seen several people mention this tweet from Westboro Baptist Church before, but didn&#039;t notice until this blog pointed it out the ironic detail at\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/10\/westboro-baptist-fail.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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