{"id":622,"date":"2011-04-29T11:27:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T15:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=622"},"modified":"2011-04-29T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T15:27:52","slug":"fun-friday-stephen-colberts-catholic-bender-after-falling-off-lent-wagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/04\/fun-friday-stephen-colberts-catholic-bender-after-falling-off-lent-wagon.html","title":{"rendered":"Fun Friday: Stephen Colbert&#8217;s Catholic Bender, After Falling Off Lent Wagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A royal wedding seems too solemn to qualify for a &#8220;Fun Friday,&#8221; plus I only caught a brief glimpse of the recap this morning (stymied by the West Coast time zone and shared hotel room with toddler). For what it&#8217;s worth, I predicted Kate would go with that Maid Marian\/Shakespearean look (though some are now calling it a throwback to Princess Grace Kelly), when I heard she and Prince William had requested that trees be installed in Westminster Abbey. Lovely!<\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/382614\/april-25-2011\/catholic-bender\">Stephen Colbert&#8217;s fall off the Lent wagon and self-described Catholic bender<\/a>. (Unfortunately, you can&#8217;t embed clips from &#8220;The Colbert Report&#8221; or &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; on the redesigned Beliefnet blogs yet &#8212; The Powers That Be are working on it.)<\/p>\n<p>That clip reminded me of my sister falling into a kind of a lamb coma after chowing down at our Easter Sunday feast after having gone\u00a0 totally meatless this year during Lent. As for me, I was just happy that my toddler managed to sit quietly for most of the midnight service, before we had to hustle out at 11:55 p.m. to join the other sheepish-looking parents and strollers appropriately gathered <em>outside <\/em>the church. Also, drove everyone home in extremely thick fog WITH burning candles remaining lit. Greek Orthodox superstar!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Easter, and Christos Anesti!<\/p>\n<p>Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to\u00a0<strong>subscribe to Belief Beat <\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A royal wedding seems too solemn to qualify for a &#8220;Fun Friday,&#8221; plus I only caught a brief glimpse of the recap this morning (stymied by the West Coast time zone and shared hotel room with toddler). 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