{"id":177,"date":"2003-02-24T11:05:27","date_gmt":"2003-02-24T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=177"},"modified":"2003-02-24T11:05:27","modified_gmt":"2003-02-24T16:05:27","slug":"on-the-tarot-qu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/02\/on-the-tarot-qu\/","title":{"rendered":"On the tarot quiz Shelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>On the tarot quiz<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/shellynna.blogspot.com\/2003_02_01_shellynna_archive.html#89623006\">Shelly<\/a> notes that there&#8217;s nothing inherently sinful about the tarot quiz.  I know I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disorderedaffections.blogspot.com\/2003_02_16_disorderedaffections_archive.html#90356128\">over at Karen&#8217;s <\/a>that I was going to sit this quiz out, but I just want to clarify a little bit.<br \/>\nDrinking coffee is licit, and some people are able to drink coffee without any problems.  When I was younger, though, I drank waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much coffee and I developed a caffeine habit.  I&#8217;ve since kicked that habit and switched to decaf.  But if I drink &#8220;regular&#8221; coffee &#8212; even in moderate amounts &#8212; for more than two or three mornings in a row, I start getting headaches and jitters if I&#8217;m late getting the joe.<br \/>\nSame thing with the tarot quiz.  When I was a fallen-away teenager, a friend of mine and I dabbled with horoscopes and tarot cards.  I may never know in this life just how much damage I did to my soul.  But I&#8217;m not going to risk making that damage even worse.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think that the people who did take the quiz are on Screwtape&#8217;s payroll, and I&#8217;m not scandalized by their having some fun with a silly internet quiz.<br \/>\nI appreciate the consideration of those who did <b>not<\/b> take the quiz because they wished to avoid giving scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the tarot quiz Shelly notes that there&#8217;s nothing inherently sinful about the tarot quiz. I know I mentioned over at Karen&#8217;s that I was going to sit this quiz out, but I just want to clarify a little bit. Drinking coffee is licit, and some people are able to drink coffee without any problems.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/02\/on-the-tarot-qu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the tarot quiz Shelly<\/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-177","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\/177","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=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}