{"id":134437,"date":"2025-04-07T15:49:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T15:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/smackdowns-and-salvation-inside-the-uk-church-where-wrestling-is-worship\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T15:49:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T15:49:47","slug":"smackdowns-and-salvation-inside-the-uk-church-where-wrestling-is-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/smackdowns-and-salvation-inside-the-uk-church-where-wrestling-is-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Smackdowns and salvation: Inside the UK church where wrestling is worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At St. Peter\u2019s Anglican Church in Shipley, UK, pro wrestling is performed at a monthly event to bring people closer to God. The initiative was founded by Gareth \u201cAngel\u201d Thompson, who overcame childhood trauma and homelessness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/04\/07\/smackdowns-and-salvation-inside-the-uk-church-where-wrestling-is-worship\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At St. Peter\u2019s Anglican Church in Shipley, UK, pro wrestling is performed at a monthly event to bring people closer to God. The initiative was founded by Gareth \u201cAngel\u201d Thompson, who overcame childhood trauma and homelessness. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":134438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}