{"id":1494,"date":"2013-10-22T22:42:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T02:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2013-10-22T22:42:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T02:42:01","slug":"kanye-west-explains-why-jesus-look-alike-is-on-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=1494","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Explains Why Jesus Look-alike is on Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kanwest-ohsodj2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kanwest-ohsodj2.jpg?resize=250%2C250\" alt=\"kanwest.ohsodj\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kanwest-ohsodj2.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kanwest-ohsodj2.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>So why is Kanye touring with a Jesus look-alike?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/2013\/10\/21\/kanye-wests-second-tour-date-postponed\/\">Fans were shocked by the appearance when the tour kicked off in Seattle.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>in a recent interview with San Francisco radio station Wild 94.9, Ye explained his creative choice.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kdVZVJKEJcM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a friend of mine that&#8217;s a pastor there as we started discussing how we wanted to deliver it,&#8221; West explained. &#8220;My girl even asked afterward, &#8216;Hmm is that weird if Jesus comes onstage?&#8217; or something like that. Then they&#8217;re like, &#8216;No, we do plays all the time when people play Jesus.&#8217; You know what&#8217;s awesome about Christianity is that we&#8217;re allowed to portray God. We&#8217;re allowed to draw an image of him, we&#8217;re allowed to make movies about him. Other religions, you&#8217;re not allowed to do that. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s really awesome about Christianity. That&#8217;s one of the awesome things&#8230; God knows where my heart is at.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>So why is Kanye touring with a Jesus look-alike? Fans were shocked by the appearance when the tour kicked off in Seattle. in a recent interview with San Francisco radio station Wild 94.9, Ye explained <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=1494\" title=\"Kanye West Explains Why Jesus Look-alike is on Tour\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":[7],"tags":[610,654,938,1294,1402],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-jesus","tag-kanye-west","tag-ohsodj","tag-tour","tag-yeezus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-o6","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}