{"id":2231,"date":"2008-11-21T19:53:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T00:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2008-11-21T19:53:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T00:53:51","slug":"mary-eberstadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/11\/mary-eberstadt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Eberstadt on Sloth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholiceducation.org\/articles\/civilization\/cc0291.htm\">&#8230;.It is Sloth that whispers into our willing modern ears<\/a>, telling us to postpone marriage and childbearing till our careers are solid and we&#8217;re &#8220;financially stable.&#8221; Sloth is the voice confiding that other forms of human &#8220;union&#8221; &#8212; i.e., those without the rigors of real marriage &#8212; will be easier on us no matter what the Bible says. And it is Sloth, finally, that seduces us into shirking the public consequences of believing just what we believe &#8211; that tells us we should just give up, go along and get along like the rest of the folks, and put up with the fiercely held untruths of our time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.It is Sloth that whispers into our willing modern ears, telling us to postpone marriage and childbearing till our careers are solid and we&#8217;re &#8220;financially stable.&#8221; Sloth is the voice confiding that other forms of human &#8220;union&#8221; &#8212; i.e., those without the rigors of real marriage &#8212; will be easier on us no matter what&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/11\/mary-eberstadt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mary Eberstadt on Sloth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","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\/2231","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=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}