{"id":1806,"date":"2005-01-03T17:56:04","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T22:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2005-01-03T18:02:43","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T23:02:43","slug":"the-mormon-church-is-for-sale-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2005\/01\/the-mormon-church-is-for-sale-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mormon Church is for Sale.  On eBay."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed this:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philocrites.com\/archives\/001546.html\">Go to Philocrites&#8217; blog <\/a>and look at the google ads on the sidebar.  (The ads run according to some pre-set computer algorithms that advertise for things relating to the topics discussed.)  This particular post discusses a Mormon baptism, and the ads included, on a recent viewing, links to &#8220;Mormon dating&#8221; . . . &#8220;Mormon beliefs Biblical?&#8221; . . . &#8220;Mormon dating&#8221; again . . . so far, so good &#8212; ads for the kinds of things one would expect the algorithm to come up with.  And then we get to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong>Mormon Church for Sale<\/strong>.  Discount Mormon church!  Check out the deals now!  www.ebay.com&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Conspiracy theorists everywhere, please take note.  The Mormon Church is for sale.  On eBay.  At a discount.  Paypal accepted.  Don&#8217;t let this auction slip away!  Check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philocrites.com\/archives\/001546.html\">Philocrites <\/a>to see if it&#8217;s still in the sidebar!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed this: Go to Philocrites&#8217; blog and look at the google ads on the sidebar. (The ads run according to some pre-set computer algorithms that advertise for things relating to the topics discussed.) This particular post discusses a Mormon baptism, and the ads included, on a recent viewing, links to &#8220;Mormon dating&#8221; . . . &#8220;Mormon beliefs Biblical?&#8221; . . . &#8220;Mormon dating&#8221; again . . . so far, so good &#8212; ads for the kinds of things one would expect the algorithm to come up with. And then we get to: &#8220;Mormon Church for Sale. Discount Mormon church! Check out the deals now! www.ebay.com&#8221;. Conspiracy theorists everywhere, please take note. The Mormon Church is for sale. On eBay. At a discount. Paypal accepted. Don&#8217;t let this auction slip away! Check Philocrites to see if it&#8217;s still in the sidebar!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}