{"id":54,"date":"2005-12-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2005\/12\/jesus-takes-manhattan.html"},"modified":"2005-12-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T12:00:00","slug":"jesus-takes-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2005\/12\/jesus-takes-manhattan.html","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Takes Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/tout\/story\/Damon2.jpg\" style=\"margin-right: 8px\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>As a lifelong Red Sox fan, (though I now proudly call Yankee territory my home), I am stunned and saddened to report that the Red Sox traded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnnydamon.net\/\" target=\"_new\">Johnny Damon<\/a> (JOHNNY DAMON!), a.k.a. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusoftheweek.com\/jesii\/333\/\" target=\"_new\">Baseball&#8217;s Jesus<\/a>, to the New York Yankees in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/baseball\/redsox\/articles\/2005\/12\/21\/damon_jumps_to_yankees\/\" target=\"_new\">$52 million dollar deal<\/a>. The hugely popular Damon earned his nickname&#8211;and the immortal <a href=\"http:\/\/worldchamps2004.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/hey-now-youre-all-star.html\" target=\"_new\">WWJDD?<\/a> T-shirts&#8211;because of his shoulder-length hair and beard as well as his role in bringing a World Series championship to Boston after an 86-year drought.<\/p>\n<p>Boston&#8217;s Savior has left the building.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a lifelong Red Sox fan, (though I now proudly call Yankee territory my home), I am stunned and saddened to report that the Red Sox traded Johnny Damon (JOHNNY DAMON!), a.k.a. Baseball&#8217;s Jesus, to the New York Yankees in a $52 million dollar deal. The hugely popular Damon earned his nickname&#8211;and the immortal WWJDD?&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jesus Takes Manhattan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2005\/12\/jesus-takes-manhattan.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jesus Takes Manhattan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As a lifelong Red Sox fan, (though I now proudly call Yankee territory my home), I am stunned and saddened to report that the Red Sox traded Johnny Damon (JOHNNY DAMON!), a.k.a. 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