{"id":529,"date":"2008-04-09T08:29:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T08:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/04\/nerves-frayed-much.html"},"modified":"2008-04-09T08:29:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T08:29:03","slug":"nerves-frayed-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/04\/nerves-frayed-much.html","title":{"rendered":"Nerves frayed, much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the Archdiocese of Washington <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanpapist.com\/2008\/04\/arch-of-dc-requests-metro-remove.html\" target=\"_blank\">expressed concern about this ad from the DC Metro system, and Metro voluntarily pulled the ad:<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Metro Pope Bobblehead Ad\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I2Ux_96iTq8?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><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been busy doing the GoogleBlog search thing and the reactions from St. Blog&#8217;s are already pouring in:<br \/>\n<strong>Liturgy Geeks<\/strong>: Good thing. A red zucchetto? Please.<br \/>\n<strong>Traditionalists<\/strong>: <em>(darkly)<\/em> Of course. There&#8217;s chant, and everyone knows these people are no Friend to Tradition.<br \/>\n<strong>NPM members:<\/strong> Good. Latin? Chant? Where&#8217;s the full and active participation?<br \/>\n<strong>Progressive types:<\/strong> <em>(darkly)<\/em> Of course. NeoCon Catholics in bed with President Cheney and big oil. Can&#8217;t have the Pope riding public transportation and threaten <em>that<\/em> cozy relationship.<br \/>\n<strong>Certain People Who are Probably Way Too Irreverent For My&#8230;er, I mean..Their Own Good<\/strong>: <em>Huh?<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/08\/AR2008040803092.html\" target=\"_blank\">WaPo article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Archdiocese of Washington expressed concern about this ad from the DC Metro system, and Metro voluntarily pulled the ad: \u00a0 \u00a0 I&#8217;ve been busy doing the GoogleBlog search thing and the reactions from St. Blog&#8217;s are already pouring in: Liturgy Geeks: Good thing. A red zucchetto? Please. Traditionalists: (darkly) Of course. 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