{"id":10826,"date":"2010-10-30T11:07:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T15:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=10826"},"modified":"2010-10-30T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T15:07:07","slug":"a-high-holy-day-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2010\/10\/a-high-holy-day-and\/","title":{"rendered":"A High Holy Day and &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Zmirak on All Saints Day\/All Souls Day and this insight.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s our very comfort with the queerness and creepiness of the whole soul-body mystery that marks the Catholic faith off from its closest competitors. I grew up loving The Addams Family, without knowing quite why, until one day as an adult I realized: These people are an aristocratic, trad-Catholic homeschooling family trapped in a sterile Protestant suburb! Shunning the utilitarianism and conformity that surrounds them, they face the Grim Reaper with rueful good cheer, in a Gothic home stock full of relics. Indeed, I think I might have spotted several Addamses at the indult parish in New York City . . <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As they say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidecatholic.com\/feature\/my-high-holy-day.html\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Zmirak on All Saints Day\/All Souls Day and this insight. It&#8217;s our very comfort with the queerness and creepiness of the whole soul-body mystery that marks the Catholic faith&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10827,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10826\/revisions\/10827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}