{"id":686,"date":"2017-07-03T20:43:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T00:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwriter.com\/?p=686"},"modified":"2019-02-19T15:17:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:17:34","slug":"holy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"Holy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- >For Dominick.<--><br \/>\nI want to be holy. But not in a holier-than-thou sort of way. I want to be just as holy as the next guy&#8211; but by\u00a0<em>guy<\/em> I specifically mean someone who goes to church.<\/p>\n<p>Because all of the people I know who go to church are fun to hang out with. And yeah, I know people who\u00a0<em>don&#8217;t<\/em> go to church who are also fun to be around, but there&#8217;s something about these church go-ers&#8211; some kind of\u00a0<em>halo<\/em>, some kind of aura&#8211; that I have an affinity for. And so what if they don&#8217;t end up going every Sunday? I barely know the difference. But if they can calmly explain to me what a holy communion is without laughing at me for not knowing in the first place, that&#8217;s the kind of holy I want to be.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t need followers. I have friends, and they might\u00a0<em>identify<\/em> as followers, but any of them can do anything they want at any time and we all know it. So I want to be\u00a0<em>holy<\/em>, but not even the\u00a0<em>holiest<\/em>. I just want to dip my toes in that water and see how it feels.<\/p>\n<p>And if I like it, then great. If I don&#8217;t, I&#8217;m back to square one. Listen, I just want some kind of religion. I don&#8217;t know what it is yet, but if you&#8217;re passionate about it, chances are I will be too.<\/p>\n<p>(And if you&#8217;re reading this, maybe you should invite me to church sometime and explain to me what everything is. You might have to repeat yourself a few times, but trust me, I&#8217;m interested.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to be holy. But not in a holier-than-thou sort of way. I want to be just as holy as the next guy&#8211; but by\u00a0guy I specifically mean someone who goes to church. Because all of the people I know who go to church are fun to hang out with. And yeah, I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}