{"id":642,"date":"2005-10-25T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2010-07-14T14:36:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T13:36:54","slug":"642","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/642\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross wielding Christians in Brixton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cross wielding Christians in Brixton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The corner of Brixton Road and Coldharbour Lane (aka the KFC Crackpot Corner) has long played host to weird and wonderful religious types.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Brixton shall be saved!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/photos\/images\/80.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had racist black dudes dressed up as medieval heavy metallers shouting homophobic abuse at passers by, scripture-quoting blokes with megaphones, happy clappy Korean bands, dodgy Nation of Islammers, God Squadders blasting out Jesus tunes at Motorhead-threatening volumes and even a group of bagpipe-toting Japanese gospel types with a banner declaring &#8220;Brixton Will Be Saved&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Things have been a little quiet there recently, so it was good to see this latest addition on Sunday &#8211; the cross-wielding Christians.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cross wielding Christians in Brixton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/photos\/images\/352.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cross wielding Christians in Brixton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/photos\/images\/353.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross wielding Christians in Brixton The corner of Brixton Road and Coldharbour Lane (aka the KFC Crackpot Corner) has long played host to weird and wonderful religious types. We&#8217;ve had &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6009,"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_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/80.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-642","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","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=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/1927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}