{"id":3512,"date":"2015-01-21T03:30:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T03:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2015-01-21T03:30:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T03:30:03","slug":"reverend-billy-and-the-church-of-stop-shopping-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/reverend-billy-and-the-church-of-stop-shopping-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WsaXN05vZag?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this performance, for which Billy Talen (Reverend Billy) was arrested, he and about a dozen performers dressed as golden toads assembled inside of a Chase bank in New York City. While the toads performed a dance ritual, Reverend Billy preached his Earthellujah doctrine, condemning JP Morgan Chase&#8217;s investment in fossil fuels and indicting them for their role in climate change.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping are familiar figures in activist street performance; they also perform at more typical arts venues nationally and internationally. Their message is one of anti-consumerism, environmentalism, and democracy. They use the tropes of evangelism and church choirs to mobilize enthusiasm and joy for their anti-capitalist agitprop.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this performance, for which Billy Talen (Reverend Billy) was arrested, he and about a dozen performers dressed as golden toads assembled inside of a Chase bank in New York City. While the toads performed a dance ritual, Reverend Billy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":3514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,93],"tags":[],"coauthors":[111],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-works","category-references"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3515,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions\/3515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2015spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}