{"id":1344,"date":"2003-03-19T02:38:22","date_gmt":"2003-03-19T07:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2003\/03\/19\/1344\/"},"modified":"2003-03-19T02:38:22","modified_gmt":"2003-03-19T07:38:22","slug":"1344","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2003\/03\/19\/1344\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Hi, me!<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Well, I got real sleepy early, like about 8 pm, and went on to bed.&nbsp; Didn&#8217;t work.&nbsp; I woke up around Midnight, and haven&#8217;t been able to sleep since.&nbsp; snif<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I got a comment from some Christian who seemed to think that dropping John 3:16 would have a positive effect on me.&nbsp; Like I came to believe what I do with no contact with Christianity.&nbsp; Hey, I&#8217;m an ordained minister already&#8230; just not in your religion&#8230;&nbsp; It was a long road, with many hard, well thought-out, conscious decisions that led me to where I am today.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>&#8220;Know thou that all thy seeking and yearning will avail thee not, unless thou knowest the mystery: that if what thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without.&#8221;&nbsp; The answer is in your heart, not your bible.&nbsp; Please don&#8217;t preach to me again.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve heard it all, and probably know the bible better than you do.&nbsp; &#8216;Nuff said.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Well, maybe I&#8217;m finally getting sleepy again&#8230; hope so&#8230; good night!<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Huge hippo hugs,<BR>Me<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, me! Well, I got real sleepy early, like about 8 pm, and went on to bed.&nbsp; Didn&#8217;t work.&nbsp; I woke up around Midnight, and haven&#8217;t been able to sleep since.&nbsp; snif I got a comment from some Christian who seemed to think that dropping John 3:16 would have a positive effect on me.&nbsp; Like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}