{"id":568,"date":"2007-12-13T19:04:37","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T19:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/13\/all-that-suprasses\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T19:09:14","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T19:09:14","slug":"all-that-suprasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/13\/all-that-suprasses\/","title":{"rendered":"all that suprasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought it would bother me so much.  But that&#8217;s the thing.  I didn&#8217;t think.  You don&#8217;t.  About this stuff.  Until it happens.  Then you know.  After Pa told me I put away the phone.  Pulled over on the side of the road.  And threw up. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The other day I was listening to Richard Dawkins talk about &#8220;The God Delusion&#8221;.  How he sees The Divine as a trick of the mind. Religious indoctrination, as a form of child abuse.  And theism, as a kind of insanity.   <\/p>\n<p>I wont go on about quantum theory versus creationism.  But I will say this: Even on a wholly intellectual level, there are some things in <em>some<\/em> people, that make me believe in a world I&#8217;ll never understand. <\/p>\n<p>My grandfather&#8217;s stillness&#8230;while I&#8217;m retching on the side of the road&#8230;is one of those things.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought it would bother me so much. But that&#8217;s the thing. I didn&#8217;t think. You don&#8217;t. About this stuff. Until it happens. Then you know. After Pa told me I put away the phone. Pulled over on the side of the road. And threw up. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212; The other day I was listening to<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}