{"id":5281,"date":"2005-11-10T18:31:59","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T23:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/11\/10\/cruel-and-unusual-punishment\/"},"modified":"2005-11-10T18:31:59","modified_gmt":"2005-11-10T23:31:59","slug":"cruel-and-unusual-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/11\/cruel-and-unusual-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruel and unusual punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darwin at Darwin Catholic <a href=\"http:\/\/darwincatholic.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/torture.html\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Folks, it&#8217;s time for me to come out against torture. Some would say that my sins mean that I deserve what I&#8217;m getting, but as sure as there is a God in heaven, this retribution is too much.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Here I was spending a few idle moments at work reading over the Gather Us In parodies at the Society for a Moratorium on the Music of Marty Haugen and David Haas and now I cannot get the tune of Gather Us In out of my head. For two days now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Do I need an exorcism? A vacation? A drink? What will make it stop?<\/p>\n<p>I suggested  that an exorcism should do the trick. Simply repeat:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Power of Chant compels you.&quot;<br \/>\n&quot;The Power of Chant compels you.&quot;<br \/>\n&quot;The Power of Chant compels you.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>We were warned about such things by Jesus. &quot;where their earworm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.&quot; Gather Us In is definitely a case that requires prayer and fasting from insipid lyrics. If only it was as simple as driving a stake through a Gather hymnal or liberally dousing an OCP hymnal with Holy Water. Though such things are better left to the professional exorcists. I have seen too many layman lulled to sleep by modern hymns which are part of the lethargical year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darwin at Darwin Catholic writes: Folks, it&#8217;s time for me to come out against torture. Some would say that my sins mean that I deserve what I&#8217;m getting, but as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281","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=5281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}