{"id":2688,"date":"2008-10-20T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/10\/take-it-break-it-share-it-love-it.html"},"modified":"2008-10-20T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T08:03:00","slug":"take-it-break-it-share-it-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/10\/take-it-break-it-share-it-love-it.html","title":{"rendered":"“Take it. Break it. Share it. Love it.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I thought that sounded eucharistic when I heard it last night — and I wasn’t imagining things. <\/p>\n

That was the copy used in the ad campaign for Popsicle on last night’s episode of “Mad Men,”<\/a> and it prompted a brief discussion about religion, as copy writer Peggy Olson — who has been struggling with her own Catholic faith — explained that not only is the idea “very Catholic,” but “it’s Christian, in the social sense.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought that sounded eucharistic when I heard it last night — and I wasn’t imagining things. That was the copy used in the ad campaign for Popsicle on last night’s episode of “Mad Men,” and it prompted a brief discussion about religion, as copy writer Peggy Olson — who has been struggling with her…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-r-us","category-media"],"yoast_head":"\n"Take it. Break it. Share it. 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