{"id":657,"date":"2008-09-26T12:22:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T19:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2008-09-26T12:22:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T19:22:50","slug":"fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2008\/09\/26\/fools\/","title":{"rendered":"Fools"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Only a fool would attempt to change the world with a simple message of love and peace. <span>\u00a0<\/span>So we can conclude that Jesus was a fool.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Only fools would agree to follow such a man, and then continue his mission even after he had been killed. <span>\u00a0<\/span>So we can conclude that the apostles were fools.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Only fools would take seriously the message which a bunch of fools were preaching, and accept that message. . . . So let all happily admit we are fools.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Then we will happily commit ourselves to trying to change the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>\u00a0&#8212; John Chrysostom (circa 370 A.D.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a fool would attempt to change the world with a simple message of love and peace. \u00a0So we can conclude that Jesus was a fool.\u00a0 Only fools would agree to follow such a man, and then continue his mission even after he had been killed. \u00a0So we can conclude that the apostles were fools.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chrysostom","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s824rZ-fools","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}