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\nSLAYER has commented on Westboro Baptist Church’s plan to picket the public memorial celebration for the band’s late guitarist Jeff Hanneman, which will be held May 23 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
The event \u2014 which will run from from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m \u2014 will be free and open to the public on a first-come, first-in basis (subject to venue capacity, which is listed at around 4,000 people). All ages are welcome, and paid parking will be available around the venue.<\/p>\n
A new message on SLAYER’s official Facebook page states: “Message to fans: Want to really piss off the Westboro Baptist Church at Jeff’s memorial celebration? Do exactly what SLAYER members and family are going to do \u2014 totally ignore them. They don’t exist. And then come inside and celebrate Jeff’s life with us.”<\/p>\n
In a “news release” announcing its plans to picket Hanneman’s memorial celebration, Westboro Baptist Church said: “Jeff Hanneman received his ‘talent’ from God. Indeed, his very breath of life was from God\u2026 Instead of being thankful and using his talents to glorify God, and warn the generation into which he was born to fear and obey God, Hanneman used this resource to encourage sin. SLAYER has commented on Westboro Baptist Church’s plan to picket the public memorial celebration for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSource: Blabbermouth.net
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\nhttp:\/\/www.slayer.net\/us\/jeff-hanneman<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"