{"id":9612,"date":"2010-03-30T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/hes-not-the-messiah-hes-a-very-naughty-boy\/"},"modified":"2010-03-30T17:54:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T17:54:14","slug":"hes-not-the-messiah-hes-a-very-naughty-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/hes-not-the-messiah-hes-a-very-naughty-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;He&#8217;s not the Messiah, he&#8217;s a very naughty boy.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/mar\/19\/raj-patel-colbert-report-benjamin-creme'>&#8220;He&#8217;s not the Messiah, he&#8217;s a very naughty boy.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brian\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/9\/90\/Chapman_as_Brian.jpg\" align=\"text-top\" height=\"270\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[London author Raj] Patel&rsquo;s background and work coincidentally matched a series of prophecies made by an 87-year-old Scottish mystic called Benjamin Creme, the leader of a little-known religious group known as Share International. Because he matched the profile, hundreds of people around the world believed that Patel was the living embodiment of a figure they called <em>Maitreya<\/em>, the Christ or &ldquo;the world teacher&rdquo;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In case you didn&rsquo;t understand the reference in my post title and in other stories about Patel, it&rsquo;s from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monty_Python%27s_Life_of_Brian\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Monty Python&rsquo;s Life of Brian<\/em><\/a>, a hilarious movie that you have to see this instant if you haven&rsquo;t already&hellip; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s not the Messiah, he&#8217;s a very naughty boy.&#8221; [London author Raj] Patel&rsquo;s background and work coincidentally matched a series of prophecies made by an 87-year-old Scottish mystic called Benjamin Creme, the leader of a little-known religious group known as Share International. Because he matched the profile, hundreds of people around the world believed that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/hes-not-the-messiah-hes-a-very-naughty-boy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;He&#8217;s not the Messiah, he&#8217;s a very naughty boy.&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}