{"id":3418,"date":"2011-02-12T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2011-02-11T19:37:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T19:37:44","slug":"pic-of-the-day-preacher-asks-the-question-brixton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/pic-of-the-day-preacher-asks-the-question-brixton\/","title":{"rendered":"Pic of the day: Preacher asks the question, Brixton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/preacher-brixton-iceland.jpg\" alt=\"Pic of the day: Preacher asks the question, Brixton\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Walk through the centre of Brixton on any given day and you can guarantee there&#8217;ll be some\u00a0religious\u00a0types hollering the Word of God in your ear &#8216;ole.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0traditional\u00a0hotspots for Godsquad shouting are the corner of Coldharbour Lane \/Brixton Road (sometimes with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-shall-be-saved-with-christian-bagpipes\/\" target=\"_blank\">added Korean bagpipe action<\/a>), outside the tube station and in the street by Electric Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/preacher-brixton-iceland-1.jpg\" alt=\"Pic of the day: Preacher asks the question, Brixton\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apart from the fella who endlessly walks around the market area\u00a0clutching\u00a0a Bible and\u00a0quoting\u00a0random passages, perhaps our favourite was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-brixton-evangelist-brixton-tube-2000\/\">megaphone-toting Phil &#8216;Sinner or Winner?&#8217; Howard<\/a> who is currently bothering\u00a0people\u00a0further afield.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/preacher-brixton-iceland-2.jpg\" alt=\"Pic of the day: Preacher asks the question, Brixton\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This guy seen outside the\u00a0Iceland\u00a0supermarket was more low key than most and I was rather grateful for it &#8211; anyone who&#8217;s heard the tone-deaf shouty\u00a0Irish\u00a0woman in full foghorn mode by the H&amp;Ms will appreciate his laid back approach.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0proud\u00a0looking chap, his hand-stencilled banner asks the\u00a0question, &#8220;Do we really\u00a0understand\u00a0the Trinity?&#8221; Is\u00a0Jesus\u00a0Christ the Almighty God?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think any passers by were interested enough to answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walk through the centre of Brixton on any given day and you can guarantee there&#8217;ll be some\u00a0religious\u00a0types hollering the Word of God in your ear &#8216;ole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,17,193],"tags":[1191],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-photos","category-places","tag-brixton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/preacher-brixton-iceland.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-T8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3420,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions\/3420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}