{"id":966,"date":"2007-05-06T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=966"},"modified":"2007-05-06T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T14:40:00","slug":"jesus-freaks-invade-beale-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/06\/jesus-freaks-invade-beale-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus freaks invade Beale Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

It happens every year on Music Fest weekend: Evangelical Jesus-freaks from all over the country descend on Beale Street carrying enormous signs, handing out pamphlets and telling the crowd they’re all going to hell. One particularly spirited man got on a megaphone and explained that you know the world’s coming to an end when you start seeing men wearing necklaces, and that good fathers and mothers would never let liquor or wine touch their lips. I saw one sign that read, “Ask me why you deserve Hell.” I didn’t ask.<\/p>\n

I’ve posted pics of their signs from previous Music Fest weekends, and they generally don’t change year to year, so just refer to last year’s archives if you want to see them. I did see this one new sign though:<\/p>\n

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I think the sign shown above is a pretty accurate illustration of the amount of sense these people make.<\/p>\n

Wish there was a way to embed polls within a blog. My question would be, who is the most annoying group during Music Fest?
a) the Jesus freaks who take over Beale
b) our local bums\/panhandlers\/vagrants
c) the “Need tickets! Sir, you got tickets to buy or sell?” guys
d) drunk frat boys who scream “woooooooooooo!”<\/p>\n

It’s hard to pick an answer other than “all of the above.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It happens every year on Music Fest weekend: Evangelical Jesus-freaks from all over the country descend on Beale Street carrying enormous signs, handing out pamphlets and telling the crowd they’re all going to hell. One particularly spirited man got on a megaphone and explained that you know the world’s coming to an end when you … Continue reading “Jesus freaks invade Beale Street”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}