{"id":2318,"date":"2008-02-29T09:24:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T09:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/29\/the-first-church-of-the-best\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T09:24:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T09:24:51","slug":"the-first-church-of-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/02\/29\/the-first-church-of-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Church of the Best"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading my LiveJournal friends list, I wander downstairs to talk to Kate. “I have an important question. Are we going to let FutureBaby read those agonizing kids books where the dog dies at the end<\/a>?”<\/p>\n

“I certainly hope not!” says the dog. “We don’t like those books. Books where the dog dies. We don’t like those books at all.”<\/p>\n

“Well,” Kate says, “I don’t know how we’ll avoid it. They keep assigning them in schools, after all.”<\/p>\n

“That’s a good point.” We’re quiet for a minute, except for the dog, who mutters darkly about the bad lessons taught to young humans.<\/p>\n

“I suppose we could claim some sort of religious objection to books where beloved pets die,” I say.<\/p>\n

“Ooooh! Yes!” says the dog, “That’s a good plan! The Church of Me! I’m the best, and I demand worship!”<\/p>\n

“Hush, you,” I say.<\/p>\n

“Thou Shalt Rub the Belly!” she says.<\/p>\n

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Well, we need it to be a plausible religious objection, after all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reading my LiveJournal friends list, I wander downstairs to talk to Kate. “I have an important question. Are we going to let FutureBaby read those agonizing kids books where the dog dies at the end?” “I certainly hope not!” says the dog. “We don’t like those books. Books where the dog dies. We don’t… Continue reading The First Church of the Best<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}