{"id":7727,"date":"2003-09-25T19:32:12","date_gmt":"2003-09-26T00:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/09\/25\/what-rymes-with-wrong-spong\/"},"modified":"2003-09-25T19:32:12","modified_gmt":"2003-09-26T00:32:12","slug":"what-rymes-with-wrong-spong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/09\/what-rymes-with-wrong-spong\/","title":{"rendered":"What rymes with wrong, &#8230;Spong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/secret-agent.blogspot.com\/2003_09_01_secret-agent_archive.html#106446351800661291\">SecretAgentMan<\/a> does a superb fisking of a document from John Shelby Spong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Someone at where I work after hearing me talk to someone about how rapture theology was relatively new and invented by John Nelson Darby a lawyer from Ireland handed me a book written by Bishop Spong.  He must have thought that since I discarded the rapture that I also discarded reason.  I had never heard of him and I looked at the back of the book and read that he was a frequent guest of Good Morning America.  Endorsement by GMA is a certain Imprimatur of theological crap.  I had not yet come into the church, but I was in my intensive reading phase.  I could not even get through the first chapter without laughing at the parody of Christianity that it taught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SecretAgentMan does a superb fisking of a document from John Shelby Spong. Someone at where I work after hearing me talk to someone about how rapture theology was relatively&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727","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=7727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}