{"id":618,"date":"2006-01-12T14:18:44","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T14:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2006-01-12T14:18:44","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T14:18:44","slug":"thursdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/12\/thursdays\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My body hurts.<\/p>\n<p>Cael&#8217;s party is tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Shopping left to do: check.<\/p>\n<p>Cake to pick up?  Yep.<\/p>\n<p>Work?  Nuts.<\/p>\n<p>But knowing that this nutjob is getting a hard time because of his ridiculous comments makes me smile&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,251-1980422,00.html\">Pat Robertson tries to save Jesusland after Sharon jibe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping that &#8220;Jesusland&#8221; is a satirical nickname and not the proposed name for the park.  What&#8217;s next?  Souvenir &#8220;crown of thorns&#8221; instead of Mickey Mouse ears?  It&#8217;s hard to take seriously, isn&#8217;t it?  I&#8217;m already way past the line I know, Nikki may have words with me, but will the &#8220;rides&#8221; include &#8220;Excellent Walk on Water&#8221; and the popular &#8220;Part the Red Sea&#8221; aquarium?  (I know that was Moses, I just don&#8217;t have a lot of material handy here, I&#8217;m a heathen, ok?)<\/p>\n<p>Oh man.  I vented for a minute there, but I&#8217;m back now.<\/p>\n<p>*** Update:  It seems that Mr. Robertson (likely due to pressure from his lawyer and his financial advisors) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/01\/12\/robertson.apology\/index.html?section=cnn_topstories\">paddling for distance from this statement<\/a>.  It&#8217;s all well and good to be preachy, but when it hurts his financial statements, it&#8217;s probably better to swallow the pride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My body hurts. Cael&#8217;s party is tonight. Shopping left to do: check. Cake to pick up? Yep. Work? Nuts. But knowing that this nutjob is getting a hard time because of his ridiculous comments makes me smile&#8230; Pat Robertson tries &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/12\/thursdays\/\">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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-9Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}