{"id":1406,"date":"2007-05-18T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2007-05-18T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T18:46:00","slug":"day-138-%e2%80%94-grotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/project-365\/day-138-%e2%80%94-grotto\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 138 \u2014 Grotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/503599043\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/213\/503599043_0eead1d7cc.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"grotto \u2014 May 18\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I live near a Catholic school, which has a little grotto out in the courtyard. I never see any kids hanging around it.<\/p>\n<p>[Insert clumsy religion-related segue here.] <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reading Christopher Hitchens&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/God-Not-Great-Religion-Everything\/dp\/0446579807\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/104-6671186-5735956?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1179514504&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>God Is Not Great<\/i><\/a>, a rambly manifesto on the ways in which all religion \u2014 from arbitrary, black-cat superstitionist spirituality to Christianity to Islam \u2014 makes people think and do outrageous and harmful things in the name of pleasing\/impressing\/sating the sky fairy of one&#8217;s choice. <\/p>\n<p>While I don&#8217;t count myself a big Hitchens fan, it&#8217;s still a relief to see someone fearlessly call out and condemn those belief systems that seek to control the lives of all \u2014 even those who don&#8217;t believe. He&#8217;s preaching to the choir, I suppose (to use a worn-out religious metaphor), but sometimes when you count yourself a member of a choir that is largely ignored or despised, it&#8217;s nice to be addressed every now and again. <\/p>\n<p>(This photo has been darkened. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/503599071\/\" target=\"_blank\">original<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/sets\/72157594457002111\" target=\"_blank\">Project 365<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live near a Catholic school, which has a little grotto out in the courtyard. I never see any kids hanging around it. [Insert clumsy religion-related segue here.] I&#8217;m reading Christopher Hitchens&#8217; God Is Not Great, a rambly manifesto on the ways in which all religion \u2014 from arbitrary, black-cat superstitionist spirituality to Christianity to Islam \u2014 makes people think and do outrageous and harmful things in the name of pleasing\/impressing\/sating the sky fairy of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memphis","category-project-365"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-mG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}