{"id":323775,"date":"2010-02-13T23:57:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T04:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22177"},"modified":"2010-02-13T23:57:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T04:57:19","slug":"christian-tv-presenter-reads-out-star-wars-plot-as-story-of-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/323775","title":{"rendered":"Christian TV Presenter Reads out Star Wars Plot as Story of Salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/7219463\/Christian-TV-presenter-reads-out-Star-Wars-plot-as-story-of-salvation.html\">Telegraph<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An email prankster tricked the host of a Christian TV show into  reading out the plots of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Star Wars in  the belief they were stories of personal salvation.<\/p>\n<p>The unsuspecting host read out most of the opening rap to The Fresh  Prince, a 1990s US sitcom starring Will Smith, apparently unaware that  it was not a genuine testimony of faith.<\/p>\n<p>The prankster had slightly adapted the lyrics but the references to a  misspent youth playing basketball in West Philadelphia would have been  instantly familiar to most viewers.<\/p>\n<p>The lines read out by the DJ included: &#8220;One day a couple of guys who  were up to no good starting making trouble in my living area. I ended up  getting into a fight, which terrified my mother.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The presenter on Genesis TV, a British Christian channel, eventually  realised that he was being pranked and cut the story short \u2013 only to  move on to another spoof email based on the plot of the Star Wars films.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Read more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/7219463\/Christian-TV-presenter-reads-out-Star-Wars-plot-as-story-of-salvation.html\">Telegraph<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Telegraph: An email prankster tricked the host of a Christian TV show into reading out the plots of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Star Wars in the belief they were stories of personal salvation. The unsuspecting host read out most of the opening rap to The Fresh Prince, a 1990s US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}