{"id":40975,"date":"2012-02-24T14:33:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T22:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40975"},"modified":"2012-02-24T14:33:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T22:33:27","slug":"do-you-want-to-control-your-spouses-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40975","title":{"rendered":"Do You Want To Control Your Spouse&#8217;s Thoughts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;The greatest Jewish philosopher and legalist, Maimonides, said that a Jew should never say, pig, eww, it&#8217;s disgusting. Rather, a Jew should say a pig sounds delicious, but God says no.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bacon smells good but I don&#8217;t eat it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m worried about spouses who want to control the other&#8217;s thoughts. If you wish to control your thoughts because you believe God wants you to,  that I respect. But I don&#8217;t want to be married to anyone who tells me what to think. I want to be married to somebody who expects certain behavior from me, as I would of her, but I don&#8217;t tell my wife what to think and I don&#8217;t want her telling me what to think. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I fight totalitarianism in the world and I don&#8217;t want totalitarianism in my marriage. &#8216;Honey, I don&#8217;t like the way you are thinking about that woman.&#8217; Holy. I don&#8217;t want to go home. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do I treat you lovingly? Then let my thoughts be, honey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love liberty, love, and fidelity. They can all be balanced.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: &#8220;The greatest Jewish philosopher and legalist, Maimonides, said that a Jew should never say, pig, eww, it&#8217;s disgusting. Rather, a Jew should say a pig sounds delicious, but God says no. &#8220;Bacon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40975\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,619],"tags":[29761,16487,29112,4992,29113],"class_list":["post-40975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-marriage","tag-dennis-prager","tag-jewish-philosopher","tag-legalist","tag-maimonides","tag-totalitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40976,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40975\/revisions\/40976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}