{"id":1199,"date":"2004-04-18T15:49:32","date_gmt":"2004-04-18T20:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2004-04-18T15:49:32","modified_gmt":"2004-04-18T20:49:32","slug":"the-seven-capit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/04\/the-seven-capit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seven Capitals Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was planning to blog this as part of a follow up to my pity-party-post, but the Curt Jester beat me to it in <a title=\"The Curt Jester: The Seven Deadly Gilligans\" href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/archives\/004674.php\">The Seven Deadly Gilligans<\/a>.  The idea is that each of the castaways exemplifies one of the Seven Capital Sins:  Gilligan shows us gluttony; Ginger, lust; the Skipper, anger; the Howells, avarice and sloth; Mary Ann, envy; and the Professor, pride.  (This is the way I heard the list; Jeff&#8217;s differs slightly.)<br \/>\nNow for all you young &#8216;uns who don&#8217;t know our seven stranded castaways, Don DeMarco suggests you think of the folks<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.com\/articles\/00articles\/natlaw3.htm\"> from the place where everybody knows your name<\/a>:  Sam showed us lust; Norm fell to gluttony; Cliff stood for pride, Carla for anger, Rebecca for avarice.  DeMarco suggests Frasier for envy, but doesn&#8217;t name anyone for sloth.  Any nominees?<br \/>\nI have also heard that the show about nothing is really about the Seven Capitals.  I have seen exactly two episodes of Seinfeld all the way through, so I hope I can remember this:  Newman is gluttony, Jerry&#8217;s parents are anger and avarice, Elaine is lust, George is envy, Kramer is pride, and Jerry exemplifies sloth.<br \/>\nThis is fun!  Any nominations for Star Trek?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was planning to blog this as part of a follow up to my pity-party-post, but the Curt Jester beat me to it in The Seven Deadly Gilligans. The idea is that each of the castaways exemplifies one of the Seven Capital Sins: Gilligan shows us gluttony; Ginger, lust; the Skipper, anger; the Howells, avarice&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/04\/the-seven-capit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Seven Capitals Channel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-st-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}