{"id":81735,"date":"2026-03-26T08:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81735"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:27:43","slug":"belgian-radio-station-apologizes-after-smashing-statues-of-jesus-blessed-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/belgian-radio-station-apologizes-after-smashing-statues-of-jesus-blessed-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian Radio Station Apologizes After Smashing Statues Of Jesus, Blessed Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Catholic World Report:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The video featuring the destruction of sacred images was \u201cintended as a humorous piece,\u201d the station said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were beating the blue out of the Monday,\u201d she said. \u201cSo people could text us like, \u2018I\u2019m having really a blue Monday because my car broke and everything.\u2019 OK, I will smash something for you!\u201d\u00a0Asked by Flynn if Christian viewers might find the destruction of the Jesus and Mary statues \u201cdeeply offensive,\u201d De Bruyn acknowledged that it \u201cmight\u201d be offensive, but \u201cin Belgium, not really.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1774513663\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Belgian Radio Station Apologizes After Smashing Statues Of Jesus, Blessed Mother\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Catholic World Report: The video featuring the destruction of sacred images was \u201cintended as a humorous piece,\u201d the station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}