{"id":13448,"date":"2005-05-31T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/31\/new-jersey-devils-satanic\/"},"modified":"2005-05-31T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T18:18:00","slug":"new-jersey-devils-satanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/31\/new-jersey-devils-satanic\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Devils &#8211; Satanic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=533&amp;e=4&amp;u=\/ap\/20050529\/ap_on_sp_ho_ne\/hkn_devils_name_change\" target=\"_blank\">State Assemblyman Craig Stanley believes that the New Jersey Devils should change its name<\/a> to avoid association with &ldquo;satanic symbols.&rdquo;  However, the assemblyman chooses to ignore the fact that &ldquo;the [NHL] team&rsquo;s name, chosen in a 1982 fan contest, comes from the mythical Jersey Devil, not the Christian symbol of the antichrist:&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The mythical Jersey Devil \u2014 with bat-like wings, a forked tail and oversized claws \u2014 was said to terrorize Pine Barrens dwellers in the 18th-century after being born the 13th child to poor South Jerseyans and morphing into a dinosaur-like beast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All (unfounded) religious concerns aside, this is just plain stupid.  Because there are no other problems in the state of New Jersey to deal with&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/sports\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">sports<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/rant\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">rant<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-111756353708307095?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey State Assemblyman Craig Stanley believes that the New Jersey Devils should change its name to avoid association with &ldquo;satanic symbols.&rdquo; However, the assemblyman chooses to ignore the fact that &ldquo;the [NHL] team&rsquo;s name, chosen in a 1982 fan contest, comes from the mythical Jersey Devil, not the Christian symbol of the antichrist:&rdquo; The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/31\/new-jersey-devils-satanic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Jersey Devils &#8211; Satanic?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}