{"id":8023,"date":"2003-07-24T18:05:40","date_gmt":"2003-07-24T23:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/07\/24\/not-parody\/"},"modified":"2003-07-24T18:05:40","modified_gmt":"2003-07-24T23:05:40","slug":"not-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/07\/not-parody\/","title":{"rendered":"Not parody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">PHILADELPHIA (AP) &#8211; Going once, going twice: A monastery can be named in your honour for a price. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">A small cash-strapped Benedictine order that wants to build a new monastery and headquarters in eastern Pennsylvania is selling the &#8220;naming rights&#8221; &#8211; much as sports teams do for stadiums and arenas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">In a seven-day auction that began Monday on EBay, the Benedictine Order of St. John the Beloved opened bidding at $1 million for a package including a church building, monastery and bell towers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The structures can be bid on separately, and the highest bidders will have their items named for them or people of their choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">If marketing the buildings is a success, future auctions will sell naming rights to choir books, stained-glass windows and church pews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The order follows the teachings of the Old Catholic Church, which split from the Roman Catholic Church more than a century ago in a dispute over papal infallibility.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/WeirdNews\/2003\/07\/24\/144841-ap.html\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Maybe Disney can get in the bidding for &#8220;Mickey Mouse Monastery&#8221; and phone companies could bid for the &#8220;Ma Bell Towers&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP) &#8211; Going once, going twice: A monastery can be named in your honour for a price. A small cash-strapped Benedictine order that wants to build a new monastery&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}