{"id":1798,"date":"2007-10-22T19:17:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T18:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2007-10-22T19:17:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T18:17:53","slug":"ymca-bad-yes-but-blasphemous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/22\/ymca-bad-yes-but-blasphemous\/","title":{"rendered":"YMCA &#8211; Bad, Yes.. But Blasphemous?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, I always knew that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"YMCA\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/YMCA\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">YMCA<\/a>, the song by the costume loving <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Village People\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Village%2BPeople\" rel=\"lastfm\" target=\"_blank\">Village People<\/a> not the actual organisation, was\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">bad<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">dire<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">shockingly awful<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">ear bleedingly bad<\/span>\u00a0words cannot express its awfulness&#8230; however, I never thought of it as blasphemous. Until I was sent this photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ymca.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1799\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/ymca\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ymca.jpg?fit=576%2C384&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"576,384\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;KODAK DX7630 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1075050847&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ymca\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ymca.jpg?fit=576%2C384&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1799\" title=\"ymca\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ymca.jpg?resize=576%2C384\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ymca.jpg?w=576&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ymca.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Jesus\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jesus\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus<\/a> does look pretty camp here&#8230; Maybe that should be the new Village People line-up: Policeman, Indian chief, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Construction worker\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Construction_worker\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">construction worker<\/a>, messiah.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, I always knew that YMCA, the song by the costume loving Village People not the actual organisation, was\u00a0bad\u00a0dire\u00a0shockingly awful\u00a0ear bleedingly bad\u00a0words cannot express its awfulness&#8230; however, I never thought of it as blasphemous. Until I was sent this photo. Come to think of it, Jesus does look pretty camp here&#8230; Maybe that should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,25],"tags":[84,443,1604,2214,2253,2363,3174,3331],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-gibberish","category-photographs","tag-84","tag-blasphemous","tag-jesus","tag-october","tag-organizations","tag-photos","tag-village-people","tag-ymca","post_format-post-format-image","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-t0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}