{"id":144,"date":"2003-02-19T12:57:22","date_gmt":"2003-02-19T17:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=144"},"modified":"2003-02-19T12:57:22","modified_gmt":"2003-02-19T17:57:22","slug":"for-those-who-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/02\/for-those-who-a\/","title":{"rendered":"For those who are just"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>For those who are just now emerging from their duct-taped, plastic-sheeted basements&#8230;<\/b><br \/>\nA quick recap (and, in the spirit of G.K. Chesterton, a little short on details&#8230;)  Sisters of Mercy, running a high school in Michigan someplace, have a charity auction to benefit the school.  One of the prizes was lunch with Governor Jennifer &#8220;I&#8217;m a good Catholic who thinks it&#8217;s immoral to force my views on abortion on others, thereby allowing others to force their views on everyone else&#8221; Granholm.  Under pressure, the Sisters nixed the award.  <b>Now it&#8217;s back on again<\/b>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exceptionalmarriages.com\/weblog\/\">HMS Blog <\/a>is coordinating an effort to let the Sisters (and Cardinal Maida, who has declined to intervene) know how &#8230;distasteful &#8230; this &#8220;prize&#8221; is.<br \/>\nGreg Popcak also links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordog.com\/eunuchs.html\">this scathing reflection<\/a> on episcopal passivity.<br \/>\nOh, and it snowed last weekend in some parts of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are just now emerging from their duct-taped, plastic-sheeted basements&#8230; A quick recap (and, in the spirit of G.K. Chesterton, a little short on details&#8230;) Sisters of Mercy, running a high school in Michigan someplace, have a charity auction to benefit the school. One of the prizes was lunch with Governor Jennifer &#8220;I&#8217;m&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/02\/for-those-who-a\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For those who are just<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","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=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}