{"id":777,"date":"2006-03-13T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=777"},"modified":"2006-03-13T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T18:02:00","slug":"sell-your-soul-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/sell-your-soul-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Sell your soul on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchmarketingsucks.com\">CMS<\/A> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchmarketingsucks.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/church_marketin_9.html\">article<\/a> about an athiest who sold his soul on eBay for a winning bid of $504.<br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>Atheist Hemant Mehta sold his soul on eBay, offering to attend an hour of church for each $10 of the final bid. The auction ended on Feb. 3 after 41 bids. The winner? Former evangelical minister Jim Henderson, founder of Off the Map, with a $504 bid.<br \/>\nRather than cashing in on 50 hours of Mehta&#8217;s church attendance, Henderson flew to Chicago to meet with Mehta in a bar and struck a deal: 10-15 hours of church services and writing about the experience.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m not trying to convert you,&#8221; Henderson told Mehta. &#8220;You&#8217;re going there almost like a critic. If you happen to get converted, that&#8217;s off the clock.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It will be interesting to see what happens in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CMS has an article about an athiest who sold his soul on eBay for a winning bid of $504. Atheist Hemant Mehta sold his soul on eBay, offering to attend an hour of church for each $10 of the final bid. The auction ended on Feb. 3 after 41 bids. The winner? Former evangelical minister &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/sell-your-soul-on-ebay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sell your soul on eBay<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-cx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}