{"id":108,"date":"2006-04-27T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2013-07-02T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T18:36:09","slug":"bad-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Bad Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3428\/1662\/1600\/Desperate.png\"><img style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: hand; text-align: center;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3428\/1662\/320\/Desperate.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYesterday afternoon I received in the mail this glossy card from a local church advertising their upcoming services. It was professionally done and very slick- but very sad.<\/p>\n<p>The picture above shows the front cover of the card with its obvious allusion to the &#8220;Desperate Housewives&#8221;\u009d show. The reverse side advertised the church&#8217;s upcoming sermon series entitled &#8220;Desperate Households,&#8221;\u009d which will run the next four weeks. The first sermon is titled, &#8220;Wife Swap&#8221;\u009d! Of course the sermon will not encourage the practice of wife-swapping. The point is to use this language for its shock value. The sermon on Mothers&#8217; Day is entitled, &#8220;Desperate Housewives&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is really sad. I can see an unbelieving detractor of the church saying, &#8220;What a pitiful lot Christians are since their message is so weak that they must pimp and prostitute it so in order to gain a hearing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The draw for the church is not slick advertising and shameless accommodation to culture, but the power of the preached word and the credibility of the lives of her members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon I received in the mail this glossy card from a local church advertising their upcoming services. It was professionally done and very slick- but very sad. The picture above shows the front cover of the card with its obvious allusion to the &#8220;Desperate Housewives&#8221;\u009d show. The reverse side advertised the church&#8217;s upcoming sermon &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=108\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Bad Advertising&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3813,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/3813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}