{"id":463,"date":"2007-08-19T21:02:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T05:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/08\/19\/god-shmod\/"},"modified":"2007-08-19T21:14:42","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T05:14:42","slug":"god-shmod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/god-shmod\/","title":{"rendered":"God, Shmod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"religions.gif\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/religions.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image462\" height=\"96\" alt=\"religions.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/religions.gif?fit=640%2C96\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the mood to ponder religion and its function, you can&#8217;t do better than this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect-magazine.co.uk\/article_details.php?id=9708\" target=\"_blank\">essay<\/a> by Roger Scruton. It elicited 126 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.prospectblogs.com\/2007\/07\/25\/the-sacred-and-the-human\/\" target=\"_blank\">responses<\/a> (so far, anyway) that will have your brain throbbing and all its pistons firing.<\/p>\n<p>The mental exercise is a great prelude to the September Vogue, which I will be addressing here next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re in the mood to ponder religion and its function, you can&#8217;t do better than this essay by Roger Scruton. It elicited 126 responses (so far, anyway) that will have your brain throbbing and all its pistons firing. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/god-shmod\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-7t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}