{"id":43834,"date":"2012-05-21T21:34:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T05:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=43834"},"modified":"2012-05-21T21:35:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T05:35:08","slug":"my-father-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=43834","title":{"rendered":"My Father, Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody has influenced me as much as <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desmond_Ford\">my father<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the best of my intentions, I constantly find myself measuring up against him. Most of the time, I&#8217;m not even conscious that I&#8217;m doing it. Consciously, I&#8217;m measuring myself up against Dennis Prager (and losing very badly).<\/p>\n<p>Dad and I very alike. Of the three kids, I&#8217;m the most like dad. I have his tendencies towards ideological devotion, but I&#8217;ve made very different choices than he did.<\/p>\n<p>In his teens, my father chose against journalism and for God.<\/p>\n<p>At 23, I chose to dedicate myself to God and then found myself to my chagrin, pursuing something very different much of the time, well, honestly, most of the time, I found myself pursuing a cult of myself. <\/p>\n<p>I had a wise asian girlfriend who told me when I was 23, &#8220;the more you try to be different from your father, the more you will be like him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A different girl, four years later, when I asked her if I was like my father, told me, &#8220;he&#8217;s not as pompous.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody has influenced me as much as my father. Despite the best of my intentions, I constantly find myself measuring up against him. Most of the time, I&#8217;m not even conscious that I&#8217;m doing it. Consciously, I&#8217;m measuring myself up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=43834\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43834","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=43834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43837,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43834\/revisions\/43837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}