{"id":4846,"date":"2011-12-24T20:57:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T01:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2011-12-24T20:57:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T01:57:58","slug":"after-mass-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4846","title":{"rendered":"After Mass tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to White Castle, then Taco Hell, the McDonalds, then finally ended up at Burger King to try to get something to eat; we managed to get the last food Burger King jamed through the window tonight. Apparently you have to be Jewish to  know where all the all night chinese places are. <\/p>\n<p>It struck me during mass that there&#8217;s so much that atheists and agnostics miss, not being able to celebrate this moment of belonging to something not only bigger than ourselves, but as big as creation itself. <\/p>\n<p>And then it dawns on me, I have this wonderful gift that gets renewed every year, about this time.<\/p>\n<p>Gwan ahead and not buy any of this &#8220;God&#8221; stuff, you dorks. I got enough Faith for us all. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t conceive of anythiing I&#8217;ve ever done to deserve it, but that&#8217;s sort of the point, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas to you all. Most of you have improved my days, some of you have improved my life. You all deserve more than I can ever give you. May the Creator come through where I cannot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to White Castle, then Taco Hell, the McDonalds, then finally ended up at Burger King to try to get something to eat; we managed to get the last food Burger King jamed through the window tonight. Apparently you have to be Jewish to know where all the all night chinese places are. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}