{"id":5615,"date":"2005-09-14T17:31:10","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T22:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/09\/14\/stop\/"},"modified":"2005-09-14T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T22:31:10","slug":"stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/09\/stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">\n(CBS) Schools across the country are pitching in to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">While there are lemonade stands and bake sales from Connecticut to California, some schools are finding more creative vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Delone Catholic High School in McSherrystown, Pa., has a fun fundraising program called &quot;Stop the Bop.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Suggested by a few members of the student council, the school is playing Hanson&#8217;s 1996 hit &quot;MMMBop&quot; through the loudspeakers before classes begin, between periods and during lunch. The idea? Annoy students into donating; have them pay to stop the music. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2005\/09\/13\/earlyshow\/main838253.shtml\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Wow what a great idea for Church fund raising. I would gladly pay through the nose to have hymns from Haugen, Haas, Shutte, and the St. Louis Jesuits stopped in mid hymn when I am occasionally afflicted by them at some Catholic churches. &#8216;The next selection is Ashes, the bidding to stop it will start at $100.&#8217; Though I guess it would be imprudent to go bankrupt over hymns. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CBS) Schools across the country are pitching in to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. While there are lemonade stands and bake sales from Connecticut to California, some&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}