{"id":13320,"date":"2014-12-03T09:12:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T14:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=13320"},"modified":"2014-12-03T09:12:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T14:12:29","slug":"nativity-set-brought-coca-cola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2014\/12\/nativity-set-brought-coca-cola\/","title":{"rendered":"This Nativity Set Is Brought To You By Coca-Cola"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/941\/2014\/12\/cocacolanativity.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13321\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/941\/2014\/12\/cocacolanativity.jpg\" alt=\"cocacolanativity\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know that you can find a more American Jesus nativity set than this one.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s cheap, tacky, poorly constructed, and overly commercialized.<\/p>\n[Insert rimshot here]\n\u00a0\n<p>I have no clue who made it or where it comes from (my friend Diane sent it to me).<\/p>\n<p>Based on the craftsmanship, I\u2019m guessing maybe it belongs to an elementary age kid\u00a0from a Christian school who totally forget to do their homework until 5 minutes before the bus showed up, so their parents frantically grabbed whatever they could find on the way out the door and this is the result.<\/p>\n<p>Or\u00a0maybe it\u2019s the mischievous\u00a0work a teenager with a good sense of humor who was tasked with doing a lame Sunday school project they had no interest in doing?<\/p>\n<p>As someone who (in college)\u00a0once presented plans for building a wooden cabinet with the presidential seal on it when my political science professor told me to do a \u201ccreative\u201d presentation on the President\u2019s Cabinet that\u00a0I <em>really<\/em> didn\u2019t want to do, I hope it\u2019s the latter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know that you can find a more American Jesus nativity set than this one. 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