{"id":542,"date":"2007-07-06T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T19:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/2007\/07\/manchester-cathedral-cries-gets-its-own-way\/"},"modified":"2013-02-23T05:26:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:26:18","slug":"manchester-cathedral-cries-gets-its-own-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2007\/07\/06\/manchester-cathedral-cries-gets-its-own-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Cathedral Cries, Gets Its Own Way."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony released an apology for using this building in a game, and promised that it would make sure to never use it in any future game ever again.  Or something.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not enough for them.  Oh no.  They&#8217;re demanding that these new &#8216;codes of conduct&#8217; be followed.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nDigital Guidelines code of conduct<br \/>\n1. Respect our sacred spaces as places of prayer, worship, peace, learning and heritage.<br \/>\n2. Do not assume that sacred space interiors are copyright free.<br \/>\n3. Get permission from the faith leaders who are responsible for the building interiors you want to clone.<br \/>\n4. Support the work of those engaged in resisting the culture of gun crime and those involved in promoting the work of conflict resolution.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t get much dumber than this, unless you count the comments on various news articles from the religious types saying, &#8220;See, this is what&#8217;s so great about us christians.  If this was a [insert other faith-based-building here], then shit would get blowed up! Hurr.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to see what they decide to do about any potential future natural disasters or wars that break out that threaten their building.  Are they going to make up a list for that, too?  Perhaps &#8216;Future Guidelines Code of Conduct&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>1. Respect our sacred spaces as places of prayer, worship, peace, learning and heritage.  This means no lava, you silly volcano!<br \/>\n2. Do not assume that sacred space interiors are willing to accept water damage, damage from space debris, or anything other than a direct Act of God.<br \/>\n3. Get permission from the faith leaders who are responsible for the building interiors before you bomb them.<br \/>\n4. Stop all that global warming right now, or I&#8217;m turning this cathedral around.  I mean it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony released an apology for using this building in a game, and promised that it would make sure to never use it in any future game ever again. Or something. But that&#8217;s not enough for them. Oh no. They&#8217;re demanding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2007\/07\/06\/manchester-cathedral-cries-gets-its-own-way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bib"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-8K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}