{"id":7937,"date":"2010-12-09T16:11:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T00:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7937"},"modified":"2021-04-03T22:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T05:17:03","slug":"viral-youth-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7937","title":{"rendered":"Viral youth video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;ve probably already seen the Youtube video where two cats are playing pattycake, and a couple of guys provide voice-overs (&#8220;Patty cake, patty cake&#8230; Dude, what was that? You bit me!&#8230;&#8221; etc.). I mean, it&#8217;s already had over 4 million views, and since you&#8217;re one of the hip people you were probably one of the first ten thousand who saw it.<\/p>\n<p>What interests me about this video are the opening and closing credits: very briefly, six words appear on the screen: &#8220;Exodus First Baptist Sr. High Ministry.&#8221; Nothing more. No proselytizing, no heavy-handed message. This is what mainline Protestants historically have done best (and sociologically speaking, Unitarian Universalists look exactly like mainline Protestants): we sponsor cultural production that is not explicitly religious.<\/p>\n<p>You mean you haven&#8217;t seen the video yet? Hey, I didn&#8217;t see it until today when Carol sent me the link. Dude, you have to see this&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[Alas, the video is no longer online.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;ve probably already seen the Youtube video where two cats are playing pattycake, and a couple of guys provide voice-overs (&#8220;Patty cake, patty cake&#8230; Dude, what was that? You bit me!&#8230;&#8221; etc.). I mean, it&#8217;s already had over 4 million views, and since you&#8217;re one of the hip people you were probably one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,47],"tags":[579,93],"class_list":["post-7937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing-church","category-pop-culture","tag-cats","tag-viral-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8335,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions\/8335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}