{"id":189005,"date":"2010-06-15T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/15\/karma-neh-3\/"},"modified":"2010-06-15T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T01:06:00","slug":"karma-neh-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/15\/karma-neh-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Karma, Neh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, a preacher in Ohio with a lot of money and wacked priorities decides to erect a six plus story statue of Jesus, because helping  the poor is for punks.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine that he thought that God is much bigger into graven images than he is into helping the downtrodden.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/From-the-news-wires\/2010\/0615\/Gigantic-62-foot-Jesus-statue-struck-by-lightning-destroyed-VIDEO\">score is now God:1, religious and self-aggrandizing nut-job:0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning struck the statue and it burned to the ground.  Doubtless the preacher won&#8217;t even feel a shred of doubt though.<\/p>\n<p>Posted via mobile, which is why I am not composing a filk of Deep  Purple&#8217;s &#8220;Smoke on the Water&#8221; (&#8220;Smoke on the Jesus?&#8221;) for my blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, a preacher in Ohio with a lot of money and wacked priorities decides to erect a six plus story statue of Jesus, because helping the poor is for punks. I imagine that he thought that God is much bigger into graven images than he is into helping the downtrodden. Well, the score is now &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1051,1021,1019,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-hypocrisy","category-religion","category-schadenfreude","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}