{"id":1275,"date":"2015-06-07T12:51:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T16:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2015-06-07T12:52:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T16:52:36","slug":"shunning-your-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"Shunning your children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Jehovah&#8217;s Witness couple discusses their shunning of one of their children.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"\/\/rutube.ru\/play\/embed\/7744603\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You know how it is: Good, decent, truly Godly people are always ready to betray their family and friends on command &#8212; like Abraham.  Applause!  Applause!<\/p>\n<p>Of the many odious teachings in the Abrahamic traditions, this is surely one of the foulest.  I say again: If the pleasure of an Invisible Wizard is more important to you than the well-being and happiness of your spouse and children, then &#8212; psychologically, at least &#8212; you&#8217;re not married and you&#8217;re not a parent.<\/p>\n<p>Which is exactly why clergy peddle that teaching so vigorously: Healthy families undermine ownership of their flock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Jehovah&#8217;s Witness couple discusses their shunning of one of their children. You know how it is: Good, decent, truly Godly people are always ready to betray their family and friends on command &#8212; like Abraham. Applause! Applause! Of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1275\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}