{"id":484,"date":"2013-03-13T16:03:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T21:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tshirtsbye2.wordpress.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2017-07-17T17:57:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T21:57:04","slug":"a-little-religious-humor-for-pope-watch-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tshirtsbye2.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"A little religious humor for Pope Watch 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I little while ago the smoke turned from gray to white and a new Pope was selected \u2013\u00a0Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, the first non-European Pope to be selected in more than 1000 years. And while the world watched this old tradition of selecting a new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, I was shocked by the lack of humor some people have in regards to religion. I believe everyone has a right to their own beliefs, just don&#8217;t try to change mine. But to take anything so serious that you become violently offended by even the slightest attempt to find some humor is beyond me. A little while ago a post was made on Facebook by CP that said &#8220;Hum&#8230;put that in your &#8216;Pope&#8217; and smoke it&#8221; a play on the old &#8220;Put that in your pipe and smoke it&#8221; whose definition is <em>&#8220;Used after\u00a0stating\u00a0something\u00a0surprising\u00a0or\u00a0undesired, to\u00a0emphasize\u00a0its\u00a0truth.&#8221;<\/em> Now I think that what they said makes sense&#8230;it was a surprise that the church picked someone from outside Europe, so yes I think the phrase was funny and cool &#8211; and even gasp appropriate! BUT in a matter of minutes FB was alive with customers saying it was &#8220;crass&#8221; &#8220;uncalled for&#8221; &#8220;in bad taste&#8221; &#8220;I am un-following you&#8221; &#8220;you just lost my business&#8221; and of course others like me going &#8220;how the hell could that offend you!&#8221; CP took the post down in about 20-30 minutes time, which actually does bother me.<\/p>\n<p>So of course my immediate response to situations like this is to <strong>DESIGN A TEE<\/strong>!! Anyone who has followed our posts or designs knows we don&#8217;t mind offending people without senses of humor. <strong>So behold our Pope Watch 2013 tee &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tshirtsbye2.com\/index.cgi\/e2.tshirtsbye2-804134774+pope-long-sleeve-t-shirt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Puff Puff Pass&#8230;Puff Puff Pope<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tshirtsbye2.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/pope_tshirt-copy.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-499\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" src=\"http:\/\/tshirtsbye2.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/pope_tshirt-copy.png?w=470\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I little while ago the smoke turned from gray to white and a new Pope was selected \u2013\u00a0Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, the first non-European Pope to be selected in more than 1000 years. And while the world watched this old tradition of selecting a new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, I was shocked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[408,409,347,410,221,411,412,413,414,415,330,29,30,31],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-catholic-church","tag-cool","tag-humor","tag-new-pope","tag-offensive","tag-pope","tag-pope-humor","tag-pope-watch-2013","tag-puff-puff-pass","tag-puff-puff-pope","tag-religious-humor","tag-t-shirts","tag-tees","tag-tshirts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tshirtsbye2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tshirtsbye2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tshirtsbye2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tshirtsbye2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tshirtsbye2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tshirtsbye2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13822,"href":"https:\/\/www.tshirtsbye2.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/13822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tshirtsbye2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tshirtsbye2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tshirtsbye2.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}