{"id":8570,"date":"2003-02-16T15:53:23","date_gmt":"2003-02-16T20:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/02\/16\/giving-the-raspberry-to-rasputin\/"},"modified":"2003-02-16T15:53:23","modified_gmt":"2003-02-16T20:53:23","slug":"giving-the-raspberry-to-rasputin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/02\/giving-the-raspberry-to-rasputin\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving the raspberry to Rasputin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">A heated debate over Russia&#8217;s first tsar, Ivan the Terrible,<br \/>\nand the lecherous mystical healer Grigory Rasputin, who compromised the monarchy<br \/>\nin its waning years, is threatening to create a split in the Russian Orthodox<br \/>\nChurch.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">At issue is a campaign to canonize the two men that is<br \/>\nrooted in a widely embraced belief that the monarchy fell victim to a plot masterminded<br \/>\nby Jews and Freemasons. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#3333FF\">Last week, a group of theologians, church historians<br \/>\nand official Orthodox journalists de facto proclaimed what has long been discussed<br \/>\nprivately in church circles &#8212; that the campaign is being carried out by a sect<br \/>\nthat is undermining the Russian Orthodox Church from within. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/stories\/2003\/02\/05\/003.html\">Full<br \/>\nStory<\/a> which include an icon of Rasputin]<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">I know this story is about a week or two old but this<br \/>\nsong has been in the back of my head.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><b>Rasputin (Sung to Roxanne by the Police)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rasputin <br \/>\nYour face on an icon would be a blight<br \/>\nSaid to be a lover<br \/>\nDid you seduce the Empress one night?<\/p>\n<p>Rasputin <br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t have to chase that dress tonight <br \/>\nWalk the streets for a honey <br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s wrong or if it&#8217;s right <\/p>\n<p>Rasputin <br \/>\nYour face on an icon would be a blight<\/p>\n<p>We tried many times to kill you <br \/>\nFeed poisoned cakes and wine to you <br \/>\nAnd asked you just how you feel <br \/>\nShot you point blank with a gun<br \/>\nBut still you had got up<br \/>\nTo stop your licentious make up<br \/>\nBludgeoned and put in a lake with a chain<br \/>\nPut you in a bad way <\/p>\n<p>Rasputin <br \/>\nYour face on an icon would be a blight\n<\/p>\n<p>Rasputin <br \/>\nYour face on an icon would be a blight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heated debate over Russia&#8217;s first tsar, Ivan the Terrible, and the lecherous mystical healer Grigory Rasputin, who compromised the monarchy in its waning years, is threatening to create a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-parody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8570","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=8570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}