{"id":825,"date":"2007-09-02T22:25:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T05:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=825"},"modified":"2007-12-08T14:22:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T21:10:47","slug":"shalom-auslander%e2%80%99s-beef-with-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Shalom Auslander&#8217;s beef with the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/guides\/fallpreview\/2007\/books\/36508\/\">From NY Mag<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>You deleted your manuscript several times out of fear that God would  strike down your family. What about now that it&rsquo;s being  published?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen I was writing it for myself, anything could happen  and no one would know. Now it&rsquo;s out there, so if He tries any shit, people are  going to know. They&rsquo;d be like, &ldquo;Wow, he&rsquo;s right, that Guy&rsquo;s a dick.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><!--end paragraph--><\/p>\n<p><!--begin paragraph--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you resent Reform Jews who can be proud of their heritage without  having had to endure the hard stuff?<\/strong><br \/>\n[Reform Jews] are not  necessarily going to burn their porn, as I did, but psychologically they&rsquo;re  doing the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>So why not throw your hat in with C<\/strong><strong>hristopher  Hitchens and become an atheism advocate? <\/strong><br \/>\nI guess if you spin  religion enough, it&rsquo;s comforting to think God&rsquo;s a decent guy. He&rsquo;s not Archie  Bunker, he&rsquo;s Meathead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NY Mag: You deleted your manuscript several times out of fear that God would strike down your family. What about now that it&rsquo;s being published? When I was writing it for myself, anything could happen and no one would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=825\">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":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shalom-auslander"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","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=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}