{"id":3212,"date":"2014-05-06T14:22:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T18:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2017-01-16T11:24:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T16:24:32","slug":"my-top-4-patheos-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2014\/05\/my-top-4-patheos-posts.html","title":{"rendered":"My Top 4 Patheos Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Yesterday I put up a video for Patheos\u2019s birthday party, and included a link to my personal favorite post on Patheos. I chose that one because I couldn\u2019t have written it if I weren\u2019t here at Patheos, among the other bloggers on all the channels, but especially among the Patheosi at the Catholic Channel, who have taught me so much (sometimes too much, because ouch) about how virtue cannot be learned until I let go of my pride, bit by painful bit.<\/p>\n<p>Today I\u2019m putting up my top 4 posts in what I guess are the main areas I write. Or something. Four different types of blogging, maybe? Anyway, here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Hot-Button Post<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/05\/medium_2980752287.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4656\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/05\/medium_2980752287.jpg\" alt=\"medium_2980752287\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2013\/05\/sloppy-seconds-sex-ed.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sloppy Seconds Sex-Ed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No question here. This is far and away the most successful, most insanely polarizing post I\u2019ve ever written. Sometimes when I wonder if I should just quit blogging altogether, since I seem to have forgotten how, I go back and re-read this post. It\u2019s like looking in a mirror and doing a Stuart Smalley<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stuart Smalley&#039;s famous quote\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-DIETlxquzY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">but in reverse. \u201cI\u2019m good enough, I\u2019m smart enough, and doggone it, people on both sides of the socio-political spectrum want to burn me alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s such a comfort.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Best Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3215\" style=\"width: 524px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/05\/The-Immodest-Woman-movie-poster.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3215 \" title=\"The Immodest Woman movie poster\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/05\/The-Immodest-Woman-movie-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"672\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes, my amazing friend Rigel created a movie poster to accompany this series<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Nuking the Modesty War<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2013\/12\/nuking-the-modesty-war-part-i-control-yourself-not-women.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1: Control Yourself, Not Women<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2013\/12\/nuking-the-modesty-war-part-ii-stop-treating-men-like-pigs.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Part II: Stop Treating Men Like Pigs<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2013\/12\/nuking-the-modesty-war-part-iii-stop-thingifying-people.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Part III: Stop Thingifying People<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Over the last year, I got into a nasty habit of writing blog posts in serial format, which was nice because I didn\u2019t have to grapple with what to write about every day, but not nice because they tended to be long, drawn-out, beating-a-dead-horse affairs. This one, however, was solid. And funny. One of the nuns at the private school my daughter attends actually printed it out and handed it out to her high school class, which I thought was awesome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Funniest Post<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/05\/BathroomSelfies-Sin-and-Style-Guide-1024x575.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3216\" title=\"BathroomSelfies-Sin-and-Style-Guide-1024x575\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/225\/2014\/05\/BathroomSelfies-Sin-and-Style-Guide-1024x575.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"276\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2013\/08\/the-bathroom-selfies-sin-and-style-guide.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Bathroom Selfie\u2019s Sin and Style Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This one was kind of hard to choose. Humor is often a subjective thing, and some of the posts I think are hilarious fall flat on their faces. But this post got the best response, so up it goes. (I also spent a stupid long time on that FreshPaint picture and feel the need to reuse it as often as possible, so as to justify its existence.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Best Mommy-Blog Post<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2012\/12\/worth-it.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Worth It<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This one was the most difficult to choose, since this has been my primary blogging style, I guess. I\u2019m not sure that this post is the best of the best, but it\u2019s a pretty good example of my daily inner crises at the endless cycle of snot, pee, poop, and puke. And why I have to write about to see it as something transformative, or else I\u2019d just be curled up in the corner, slightly nauseated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Go click around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/Catholic.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">the landing page <\/a>to see my fellow Patheosi\u2019s top Patheos posts!<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vizzzual-dot-com\/2980752287\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">viZZZual.com<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">photopin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cc<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I put up a video for Patheos\u2019s birthday party, and included a link to my personal favorite post on Patheos. 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