{"id":521,"date":"2001-02-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-02-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/02\/19\/2001-02-19-writer-seeks-hindu-input-on-the-simpsons\/"},"modified":"2001-02-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-02-19T12:00:00","slug":"2001-02-19-writer-seeks-hindu-input-on-the-simpsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/02\/19\/2001-02-19-writer-seeks-hindu-input-on-the-simpsons\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer Seeks Hindu Input on The Simpsons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"mailto:OSOPinsky@aol.com\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>ORLANDO, FLORIDA, February 19, 2001: Mark Pinsky, religion writer for the Sentinel newspaper here is publishing a book, &#8220;The Gospel According to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of America&#8217;s Most Animated Family.&#8221; His thesis is that despite its reputation (and beneath the jokes and sarcasm), &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221; television show treats God, faith and spirituality in a supportive, favorable fashion. He&#8217;s included a chapter on the treatment of Hinduism, through the recurring character Apu. Informed that some Hindus have taken strong exception to the program, he is soliciting the opinion of Hindus on &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221; and the treatment of Hinduism, specifically if we feel the show treats Hinduism in a &#8220;supportive, favorable fashion,&#8221; as he contends it does for Christianity. Write to him at &#8220;Source&#8221; above.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE ORLANDO, FLORIDA, February 19, 2001: Mark Pinsky, religion writer for the Sentinel newspaper here is publishing a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}