{"id":1189,"date":"2008-09-24T05:55:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T10:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:13","slug":"on-living-a-quiet-life-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1189","title":{"rendered":"On Living A Quiet Life, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: The following photo is considered by some to be like a Playboy magazine in that it must be kept behind the counter and away from curious, roving eyes:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1190\" title=\"female-pastors.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/female-pastors.jpg\" alt=\"female-pastors.jpg\" width=\"305\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No really, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/living\/content\/living\/stories\/2008\/09\/18\/gospel_magazine_pulled.html\">I&#8217;m not kidding.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know a lot of Southern Baptist and Church of Christ men really like Sarah Palin and think she would be a great <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">President<\/span> Vice President, but would they typically let her speak during their services or teach a class with men present?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that you say? Well, okay then, how about pass a communion tray? Hmmm&#8230;serve food at a church potluck? That&#8217;s what I thought.<\/p>\n<p>And on another front of the Culture War, the same people who &#8220;stumbled&#8221; over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/nation\/18969709.html?location_refer=Homepage\">the retro Starbucks mermaid logo<\/a> are back again, and this time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digtriad.com\/news\/features\/article.aspx?storyid=111002&amp;catid=216\">the Duke Blue Devils are in their crosshairs (h\/t Greg):<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1191\" title=\"blue-devil-blasphemy.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/blue-devil-blasphemy.jpg\" alt=\"blue-devil-blasphemy.jpg\" width=\"287\" height=\"244\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Okay, I think they&#8217;ve really crossed some kind of line this time. Do you think it would matter if they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goduke.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=4200&amp;KEY=&amp;ATCLID=242333\">actually knew what a Blue Devil was?<\/a> Nah, probably not.<\/p>\n<p>Remember what I was saying about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1188\">living a quiet life and minding your own business?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear Lord Jesus: Save us from &#8220;your people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--3b51060653ea07d4d6bdb8cf5b9df8f0--><\/p>\n<p><!--177464852a476aa30a584d8822f4b36f--><\/p>\n<p><!--c588c3184e8915056c2f338359cbba57--><\/p>\n<p><!--c588c3184e8915056c2f338359cbba57--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: The following photo is considered by some to be like a Playboy magazine in that it must be kept behind the counter and away from curious, roving eyes: No really, I&#8217;m not kidding. I know&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,33,24,23,30,27,51,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-churches-of-christ","category-culture","category-current-events","category-duke-basketball","category-politics","category-religion","category-sarah-palin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9286,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/9286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}