{"id":3896,"date":"2007-04-17T12:49:32","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T17:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/04\/17\/go-to-church-that%ef%bf%bds-what-it%ef%bf%bds-for\/"},"modified":"2007-04-17T12:49:32","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T17:49:32","slug":"go-to-church-that%ef%bf%bds-what-it%ef%bf%bds-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/04\/go-to-church-that%ef%bf%bds-what-it%ef%bf%bds-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Go to church. That\ufffds what it\ufffds for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\"><strong>Please don&#8217;t indulge in godless modern paganism and set up homely, self-indulgent makeshift memorials with cheap flowers and teddy bears.<\/strong> Don&#8217;t hold hands and sing bad pop songs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"> Go to church. That&#8217;s what it&#8217;s for. For centuries, people smarter than you and with more finely honed aesthetics worked on rituals that actually do what they&#8217;re supposed to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"> Those people who hung around outside the Palace after Princess Diana&#8217;s death looked like fools and you will too if you cave to the lure of cheap grace and post-modern superficiality. <strong>Those British mourners displayed as much gringe-inducing [sic], pan-generational learned helplessness as Katrina survivors, but their laziness and ignorance was spiritual.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"> Worse, you will still feel as empty as you did before, maybe more so, and wonder why.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"> <strong>Don&#8217;t make America look stupid and shallow to the whole world by Disneyfying your grief.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shaidle.blogmatrix.com\/:entry:shaidle-2007-04-17-0004\/\">Kathy Shaidle<\/a> says what most of us don&#8217;t have the wit or courage to say. The Disneyfying of grief is quite accurate, but what has also started is the hobby-horsing of this tragedy in that groups are once again using the pure evil or insanity of one person&#8217;s act as a bullet point for an agenda. The only agenda right now should be prayer.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please don&#8217;t indulge in godless modern paganism and set up homely, self-indulgent makeshift memorials with cheap flowers and teddy bears. Don&#8217;t hold hands and sing bad pop songs. Go to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}