{"id":1413,"date":"2006-08-23T14:29:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T20:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2006-08-23T14:29:59","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T20:29:59","slug":"an-attempt-at-a-meaningful-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1413","title":{"rendered":"An Attempt at a Meaningful Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[+] It&#8217;s paining me that I can&#8217;t write long meaningful things like I used to do in 2003 and 2004.\u00c2? I mean, I&#8217;m now home again and my life *is* interesting &#8212; I just haven&#8217;t been able to articulate a lot of things on here because after what happened last September, I&#8217;ve become more private about my life.<\/p>\n<p>[+] My faith life lately has been exploring Orthodox Christianity and attempting to reconnect to my liturgical side since I am seriously missing liturgy.\u00c2? There&#8217;s a part of me that wants to attend Anglican services agan (in Canada of course &#8212; Anglicans and Episcopalians don&#8217;t exactly exist here) if for no other reason than it&#8217;s what I imprinted on.\u00c2? (Yes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcosours.com\">Pisco<\/a>, I know I need to haul butt to DC and visit you.)<\/p>\n<p>[+] I have been ignoring most media outlets other than <em>Countdown<\/em> lately as I&#8217;m sick of seeing people dying in Lebanon and I don&#8217;t really give a rat&#8217;s butt about the JonBenet case which was *already* overhyped.\u00c2? The War in Iraq just depresses me and I have so little respect for the president that I don&#8217;t want to even see him speak.\u00c2? Thank goodness for DVR technology which lets me flip through a TV program to the parts I want.\u00c2? (In this case: ODDBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\u00c2? Oh yeah, and whoever happens to be the Worst Person in the World for that day in case it&#8217;s Bill O&#8217;Reilly.)<\/p>\n<p>[+] I have decided that I have no desire to see <em>Snakes on a Plane<\/em>.\u00c2? I&#8217;m terrified of snakes that have a shot at killing me (which sucks because we have rattlers around here) and the movie was overhyped.\u00c2? Besides, I&#8217;m now in a place where I kinda have to fly so I don&#8217;t want to deal with the thought of cobras and pythons on my Alaska Airlines flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[+] It&#8217;s paining me that I can&#8217;t write long meaningful things like I used to do in 2003 and 2004.\u00c2? I mean, I&#8217;m now home again and my life *is* interesting &#8212; I just haven&#8217;t been able to articulate a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1413\">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_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":[1,2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-faith","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-mN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}