{"id":2094,"date":"2009-03-15T21:33:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T02:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2009\/03\/15\/the-gem-of-st-teresa\/"},"modified":"2009-03-15T21:33:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T02:33:11","slug":"the-gem-of-st-teresa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2009\/03\/the-gem-of-st-teresa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gem of St. Teresa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">Tonight The Simpson&#8217;s had Lisa enter a convent to get Maggie back in a parody of the Da Vinci Code.  The back history was St. Teresa of Avia on her deathbed talking about some gem that was to be found.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/simpson_avila.jpg\" alt=\"St. Teresa of Avila on deathbed\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">The Da Vinci Code has plenty to parody, though the Simpson episode didn&#8217;t really tap that rich vein.  Instead a rather stupid plot was persued where her nuns went to the new world to seek a gem from a vision and then running into Masons also seeking it.  Episode wasn&#8217;t really anti-Catholic &#8211; just stupid and I am not sure why they picked on St. Teresa of Avila. Bad enough that they couldn&#8217;t even get the color of the Carmelite habit, but history-wise they had her death a the time of the founding of the U.S. which didn&#8217;t happen to well over a hundred years later.  Though then again it was just a Simpson episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight The Simpson&#8217;s had Lisa enter a convent to get Maggie back in a parody of the Da Vinci Code. The back history was St. Teresa of Avia on her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","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=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}