{"id":4852,"date":"2016-10-04T13:55:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T17:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4852"},"modified":"2016-10-04T13:55:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T17:55:17","slug":"dismal-theology-related-advice-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4852","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related advice for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that October is Pastor Appreciation Month.  I couldn&#8217;t care less, and I imagine that few readers of this blog care either, but I suppose some people do and <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/SbcVoices\/~3\/ytegFjJNOIs\/\" target=\"_blank\">here are some tips<\/a> for making that special irritant feel wanted.  I especially like this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Honor him as God\u2019s ordained spiritual authority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh-huh.  We&#8217;re talking about a man whose life is devoted to the degradation of others, to convincing them that they&#8217;re no damn good and were born that way and can&#8217;t do a thing about it but join his club &#8212; and then exacting 10% of their income till the day they die.  The only matter in which I concede their authority is bunco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that October is Pastor Appreciation Month. I couldn&#8217;t care less, and I imagine that few readers of this blog care either, but I suppose some people do and here are some tips for making that special irritant feel &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4852\">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\/4852"}],"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=4852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4855,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions\/4855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}