{"id":4237,"date":"2007-11-15T20:12:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T00:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2007-11-15T20:30:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T00:30:28","slug":"wackiest-attempted-priestcraft-internet-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2007\/11\/wackiest-attempted-priestcraft-internet-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Wackiest attempted priestcraft, Google version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=4237#more-4237\"><img src='http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/googleadsthumb1.jpg' align=\"right\" alt='' \/><\/a>  Check out these wacky ads, straight off of today&#8217;s Gmail sidebar.   <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One promises <a href=\"http:\/\/www.besttones4u.net\/ringtone\/3807\/Book-Of-Mormon\/index.html?sub1=0010019052582\">complimentary &#8220;Book of Mormon ringtones.&#8221;<\/a>  (Um, I&#8217;ll take the &#8220;Lamanites met others who were seeking liberty&#8221; ringtone, please.)  <\/p>\n<p>Alas, it doesn&#8217;t actually deliver &#8212; if you&#8217;re unfortunate enough to click on the link, you&#8217;re merely redirected to a separate page that asks for your cell phone number and mentions in fine print that if you do give them your number, you&#8217;ll be enrolled into a $10 a month cell-phone ringtone plan.  (The &#8220;Mormon Ringtones&#8221; ad does the same.)  Yay, priestcraft!  <\/p>\n<p>But wait, there&#8217;s more!  Take a look down the screen &#8212; there&#8217;s a link promising &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopzilla.com\/2X_-_mkt_id--212373304\">Bargain prices.  Smart deals.  Save on Mormon garments!<\/a>&#8221;  (Because Beehive clothing is so darn expensive?)  <\/p>\n<p>This one is also merely an illusion.  It pulls up a shopzilla page, which returns a message that no Mormon garments were found.  Um, that&#8217;s a good thing, right?  <\/p>\n<p>What will appear in the gmail sidebar next?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concurringopinions.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/google_wants_me.html\">Slave ships?<\/a>  The <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=1806\">church itself<\/a>?  Only time will tell.  <\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/googleads1.jpg' alt='' \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out these wacky ads, straight off of today&#8217;s Gmail 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-4237","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\/4237","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=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}