{"id":287,"date":"2006-06-30T07:25:08","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T07:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2006-06-30T07:25:08","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T07:25:08","slug":"rum-sodomy-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Rum, sodomy and&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case it&#8217;s not on your regular reading menu, a recent posting from Crooked Timber tickles the risibility meters (they&#8217;re stereo&#8230;): <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2006\/06\/30\/framing-god\/\">The Holy Trinity is getting a makeover&#8230;<\/a>. Puts me in mind of a favorite Pratchettism, in which I first encountered the [well known British] term <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22god+bothering%22\">&#8220;godbothering&#8221;<\/a> [glossed as <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.peak.org\/~jeremy\/retort.cgi?British=GmbH\">&#8220;fervent religious grovelling&#8221;<\/a>] :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Archchancellor (of Unseen University) Mustrum Ridcully: So&#8230; how are things in the godbothering business?<br \/>\nChief Priest of Blind Io: We do our humble best. How is the dangerous meddling with things man was not meant to understand?<br \/>\nRidcully: Pretty fair. Pretty fair.<br \/>(incidentally, they are brothers)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(from Terry Pratchett&#8217;s <b>Reaper Man<\/b>, pg 91)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case it&#8217;s not on your regular reading menu, a recent posting from Crooked Timber tickles the risibility meters (they&#8217;re stereo&#8230;): The Holy Trinity is getting a makeover&#8230;. Puts me in mind of a favorite Pratchettism, in which I first encountered the [well known British] term &#8220;godbothering&#8221; [glossed as &#8220;fervent religious grovelling&#8221;] : Archchancellor (of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}