{"id":83203,"date":"2026-06-01T09:47:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83203"},"modified":"2026-06-01T09:47:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:47:31","slug":"666-bus-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/666-bus-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;666&#8217; Bus Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the London Mail\u00a0<\/em>[caution, lurid tabloid]:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The infamous &#8216;Route 666&#8217; bus service to the Polish seaside resort is being resurrected by Flixbus \u2013 three years after it was renumbered due to pressure from religious groups. The 13-hour route links\u00a0Krak\u00f3w and Hel, with stops in major Polish hubs like\u00a0W\u0142adys\u0142awowo, Ku\u017anica and the capital, Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The route gets its name from a mix of its destination, Hel (similar to the English word &#8216;hell&#8217;), and bus number 666, the biblical number of the beast. Although the service ran for over a decade, the number was ultimately retired and replaced with &#8216;669&#8217; in June 2023 following years of complaints from Catholic conservative groups, who called it &#8216;satanic&#8217; and &#8216;anti-Christian propaganda&#8217;.<\/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=\"1780307251\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"&#8216;666&#8217; Bus Returns\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the London Mail\u00a0[caution, lurid tabloid]: The infamous &#8216;Route 666&#8217; bus service to the Polish seaside resort is being resurrected.<\/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-83203","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\/83203","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=83203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83204,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83203\/revisions\/83204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}