{"id":198577,"date":"2007-10-28T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/28\/god-is-a-redsox-fan\/"},"modified":"2007-10-28T23:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T04:22:00","slug":"god-is-a-redsox-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/28\/god-is-a-redsox-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"God Is a Redsox Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20071028&amp;content_id=2285700&amp;vkey=recap&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=mlb\">Redsox win 4-3 to sweep series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m joking, of course.  God does not involve himself in sporting events, and I&#8217;ve always felt that those people who ascribe success in sporting events to God are engaging in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chillul_Hashem\">Chillul Hashem<\/a>, i.e. taking His name in vain.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s why I find the players, and teams, as in the case of the Colorado Rockies, who wear God on their sleeve so grating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redsox win 4-3 to sweep series. I&#8217;m joking, of course. God does not involve himself in sporting events, and I&#8217;ve always felt that those people who ascribe success in sporting events to God are engaging in Chillul Hashem, i.e. taking His name in vain. It&#8217;s why I find the players, and teams, as in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1021,1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198577"}],"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=198577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}