{"id":590,"date":"2011-04-17T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=590"},"modified":"2011-06-24T08:29:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T12:29:30","slug":"fun-friday-looking-forward-to-the-easter-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/04\/fun-friday-looking-forward-to-the-easter-weekend.html","title":{"rendered":"Fun &#8216;Friday&#8217;: Looking Forward To The Easter Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to save these fun\u00a0Easter-related links\u00a0for Good Friday, but I&#8217;m sure there will be plenty more entertaining religion news by then. Happy Palm Sunday!<\/p>\n<p>Check out the Community Christian Church&#8217;s\u00a0take on that infamously awful\u00a0&#8220;Friday&#8221; pop song, riffing on the excitement as Easter Sunday approaches. (My son jams to the beat!\u00a0 Disclaimer: He&#8217;s a toddler. Then again, that&#8217;s how Justin Bieber started, too.)<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Rebecca Black - Friday (OFFICIAL PARODY VIDEO) - Sunday - Sadie B\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/npgdw5Zb7TY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Also, check out ths year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/382015\/april-14-2011\/easter-under-attack---egg-edition\">&#8220;War on Easter&#8221; silliness from The Colbert Report <\/a>(though he ought to credit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southparkstudios.com\/full-episodes\/s11e05-fantastic-easter-special\">&#8220;South Park&#8221; for that joke about Peter Rabbit\u00a0becoming St. Peter<\/a>, the first pope).<\/p>\n<p>And the local story from my secular neck of the woods: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynorthwest.com\/?nid=11&amp;sid=459668\">Seattle school renames Easter eggs &#8220;Spring Spheres&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to\u00a0<strong>subscribe to Belief Beat\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to\u00a0<strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to save these fun\u00a0Easter-related links\u00a0for Good Friday, but I&#8217;m sure there will be plenty more entertaining religion news by then. Happy Palm Sunday! Check out the Community Christian Church&#8217;s\u00a0take on that infamously awful\u00a0&#8220;Friday&#8221; pop song, riffing on the excitement as Easter Sunday approaches. 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