{"id":973629,"date":"2019-11-20T14:41:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=915550"},"modified":"2019-11-20T14:41:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:41:14","slug":"something-happened-on-the-way-to-heaven-church-builds-baby-jesus-statue-resembling-phil-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/something-happened-on-the-way-to-heaven-church-builds-baby-jesus-statue-resembling-phil-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Happened on the Way to Heaven: Church Builds Baby Jesus Statue Resembling Phil Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

A church in Mexico unveiled an extremely large statue of baby Jesus that inadvertently bears a striking resemblance to Phil Collins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Per The New York Post<\/i><\/a>, the statue is nearly 22 feet tall, weighs 2,000 pounds and was made out of fiberglass, resin, automotive paste and car paint. Sculptor Roman Salvador crafted the statute, which was built in the city of Chimalhuac\u00e1n before being transported to La Epifan\u00eda del Se\u00f1or church in the Mexican state of Zacatecas.<\/p>\n

And while the gigantic baby Jesus is undeniably impressive in its own right, its big blue eyes, full cheeks and this-mullet-is-definitely-not-an-attempt-to-compensate-for-a-receding-hairline hairdo give it the uncanny aura of Eighties-era Collins.<\/p>\n

The true piece de resistance, though: The statue\u2019s perfectly curled widow\u2019s peak.<\/p>\n

\n

En la iglesia “La Epifan\u00cda del Se\u00f1or” de #Zacatecas<\/a> tienen una estatua enorme del \u201cNi\u00f1o Dios\u201d \u00bfO de Phil Collins? \ud83e\udd14 pic.twitter.com\/566RicHDxK<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 I\u04d9nu\u0250\u026f \u04d9so\u027e (@JoseManuelRadio) November 20, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While creating a holy homage to the former Genesis frontman probably wasn\u2019t the intention of the sculptor or the church, La Epifan\u00eda del Se\u00f1or is still seeking recognition for their new centerpiece in the form of a Guinness World Record. Priest Humberto Rodriguez said the statue was only meant to fit the uniquely large dimensions of the church, but after receiving it, the church began to wonder if their big baby Jesus was, in fact, the biggest baby Jesus.<\/p>\n

The church found that the previous record-holder was 16 feet tall and 661 pounds, so with approval from Guinness, the records keeper told The Post <\/i>that La Epifan\u00eda del Se\u00f1or would be the first official holder of the \u201clargest baby Jesus statue\u201d in the world title.<\/p>\n

As images of the statue began to spread online, other memes popped up alongside posts comparing the statue to Phil Collins. As the Mexican paper El Sol de Puebla<\/i><\/a> showcased, Twitter users turned the statue into festival balloons and made it shoot lasers from its eyes, while one person noted that the statue also does kind of look a bit like Nic Cage.<\/p>\n

\n

Sab\u00eda que ese Ni\u00f1o Dios lo hab\u00eda visto en otro lado \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd23 pic.twitter.com\/BMRaHNEAt1<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Donald J. Tron\u00ae (@ribalcor) November 19, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A church in Mexico unveiled an extremely large statue of baby Jesus that inadvertently bears a striking resemblance to Phil Collins. Per The New York Post, the statue is nearly 22 feet tall, weighs 2,000 pounds and was made out of fiberglass, resin, automotive paste and car paint. Sculptor Roman Salvador crafted the statute, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 22:20:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}