{"id":774,"date":"2014-08-12T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidmills\/?p=774"},"modified":"2014-08-11T18:13:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T22:13:41","slug":"holy-disruptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidmills\/2014\/08\/holy-disruptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Disruptions"},"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>The year I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidmills\/2014\/08\/a-great-glorious-but-debated-assumption\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">A Great &amp; Glorious, but Debated, Assumption<\/a>, that holy day of obligation for American Catholics was not a holy day of obligation, because feasts that are normally days of obligation are not obligatory when they fall on a Saturday or a Monday, apparently because someone thinks people shouldn\u2019t have to go to church two days in a row. Which ignores the fact that obligations are only useful if they are, you know, obligatory, and not sometimes choices or options. Holy days are <em>supposed<\/em> to disrupt your regularly scheduled programming. When, oh <em>when<\/em>, will Christian leaders learn that you don\u2019t make something more attractive by continually cutting the price.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year I wrote A Great &amp; Glorious, but Debated, Assumption, that holy day of obligation for American Catholics was not a holy day of obligation, because feasts that are normally days of obligation are not obligatory when they fall on a Saturday or a Monday, apparently because someone thinks people shouldn\u2019t have to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Holy Disruptions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The year I wrote A Great &amp; 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