{"id":5224,"date":"2012-04-08T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2012-04-08T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T17:00:06","slug":"i-told-the-truth-to-a-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/08\/i-told-the-truth-to-a-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"I Told the Truth To a Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I was not a practicing Catholic any longer by the time I was twenty-five.  I was \u201cliving in sin,\u201d meaning I was not married to my partner at the time.  I was not going to Confession to confess my sins, and I certainly didn\u2019t feel the need for absolution.  I didn\u2019t accept any longer the fact that a man had come to earth to die under torture by the Romans to be resurrected and give me a channel to be okay with the Creator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have an Easter Message for you, <a href=\"http:\/\/tuibguy.com\/?p=5840\">but Mike does&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was not a practicing Catholic any longer by the time I was twenty-five. I was \u201cliving in sin,\u201d meaning I was not married to my partner at the time. I was not going to Confession to confess my sins, and I certainly didn\u2019t feel the need for absolution. I didn\u2019t accept any longer the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/08\/i-told-the-truth-to-a-priest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Told the Truth To a Priest<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1mg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}