{"id":2770,"date":"2004-08-09T13:56:11","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T20:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2004-08-09T13:56:11","modified_gmt":"2004-08-09T20:56:11","slug":"wwad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/09\/wwad\/","title":{"rendered":"WWAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/images\/wwad.jpg' align='right'>The Catholic Church has been a little down on its luck recently, what with the abuse scandals and the Pope running out of people to confer favor on, to the point where he has to resort to  <a href='http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/europe\/01\/26\/pope.breakdancers.ap\/'>blessing breakdancers<\/a>.  What they need is something that will not only refill their depleted coffers, but also enable them to earn the goodwill of people across the world like they did during the crusades.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I think they should found What Would Atkins Do, Incorporated.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it works.  The church opens a series of bakeries across the nation, selling all varieties of grain products:  bread, muffins, pasta, you name it.  Each outlet also employs a deacon, who sanctifies everything before its shipped to locals stores.  It would be sort of like the kosher food deal, but, you know, Christier.<\/p>\n<p>And voila:  moneymaker!   The 96% of the American population currently on the Atkins diet could enjoy all those baked goods they&#8217;ve had to forego, without having to worry about meddlesome carbs.  Thanks to the (literal!) miracle of transubstantiation, those WWAD cinnamon rolls and bagels will turn into the (literal!) body of Christ after consumption, thereby converting a carbohydrate-laden doughnut into a the relatively carb-free hunk of Messiah.  Dieters get to eat bread again <em>and<\/em> stave off eternal damnation, all at the same time &#8212; it&#8217;s win-win!<\/p>\n<p>If WWAD, Inc. is successful (how could it not be?), they could even branch out by opening vineyards and launching a line of sanctified wine for vampires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church has been a little down on its luck recently, what with the abuse scandals and the Pope running out of people to confer favor on, to the point where he has to resort to blessing breakdancers. What they need is something that will not only refill their depleted coffers, but also enable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}