{"id":5898,"date":"2005-06-07T13:04:25","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T18:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/06\/07\/trying-to-invent-a-story\/"},"modified":"2005-06-07T13:04:25","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T18:04:25","slug":"trying-to-invent-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/06\/trying-to-invent-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to invent a story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">Barbara Nicolosi at Church of the Masses posts about  an <a href=\"http:\/\/churchofthemasses.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/ny-times-calling.html\">interview she had with a NY Times reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">James: So, in the last six months, there have been 37 pairings in the Times of the word &quot;Christian&quot; with words like &quot;scary&quot;, &quot;frightening&quot;, &quot;theocratic&quot; and &quot;intimidating&quot;. My question is, what is it about Christians that makes you so scary?<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Barb: (loud, snorting and sneering laughter) Are you kidding me?<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">James: What?<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Barb: I finally get interviewed by the New York Times, and you ask me a question like that?! (more snorting and laughing)<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">James: (sniffs) Are you laughing because you think it&#8217;s funny that people find Christians frightening?<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Barb: No. I&#8217;m laughing because you want me to tell you why you and your friends are scared of Christians &#8212; and I think you should ask your therapist!<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">As they say <a href=\"http:\/\/churchofthemasses.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/ny-times-calling.html\">read the whole thing<\/a>.  It had me laughing out loud several times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Nicolosi at Church of the Masses posts about an interview she had with a NY Times reporter. James: So, in the last six months, there have been 37 pairings&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-5898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898","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=5898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}