{"id":1581,"date":"2011-10-14T15:29:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T19:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yearofsundays\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2011-10-14T15:29:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T19:29:42","slug":"enlightened-by-elvis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yearofsundays\/2011\/10\/enlightened-by-elvis.html","title":{"rendered":"Enlightened by Elvis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a picture is worth a thousand words, I wonder what a video (or three) is worth? Joel, the hardcore hometown Portland boy (who still refuses to admit he doesn&#8217;t live there anymore&#8230;) did such a good job <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yearofsundays\/2011\/10\/24-hour-church-of-elvis.html\" target=\"_blank\">describing the church of Elvis<\/a> that I actually don&#8217;t have much else to add.<\/p>\n<p>But I <strong>do<\/strong> have video!<\/p>\n<p>Here is how the Church of Elvis works. You stop into the comic shop next door and get some quarters and you pop one in the machine and here&#8217;s what you get &#8211; an Elvis trivia quiz:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"More from the Church of Elvis\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hcEveO3jkOg?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>Then, since she kept begging, we let my five-year-old daughter, Genoa, have a turn putting a quarter in the slot&#8230;<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Church of Elvis\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WsgIxTd3TuQ?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>But the TRULY enlightening part of the Church of Elvis experience was getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandajuice.com\/mandajuice\/2011\/10\/the-post-about-that-girl.html\" target=\"_blank\">THAT GIRL<\/a>, AKA the screamer, to do this for the camera:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Genoa doing the Elvis dance\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aCOQ8eQoOes?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a picture is worth a thousand words, I wonder what a video (or three) is worth? Joel, the hardcore hometown Portland boy (who still refuses to admit he doesn&#8217;t live there anymore&#8230;) did such a good job describing the church of Elvis that I actually don&#8217;t have much else to add. 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