{"id":11107,"date":"2012-10-28T22:13:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T02:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=11107"},"modified":"2012-10-28T22:13:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T02:13:52","slug":"the-predatory-providence-of-pro-life-richard-mourdock-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/10\/28\/the-predatory-providence-of-pro-life-richard-mourdock-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The predatory providence of ‘pro-life’ Richard Mourdock (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

(The first part of this post is here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Here, again, is what Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock of Indiana said:<\/p>\n

I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God, and I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/a> clarifies what that means:<\/p>\n

1. Mourdock believes that life begins at conception.<\/p>\n

2. He also believes that whenever conception occurs, God intended it and it is a gift.<\/p>\n

3. He further believes that rape is one way in which conception sometimes occurs.<\/p>\n

4. Thus he believes that conception through rape is a gift from God and furthermore intended by God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Or, as Jill Filipovic<\/a> summarizes: \u201c[Mourdock] did not say that rape is a gift from God. He did say that an unwanted pregnancy is a post-rape goodie bag from the Lord. And that the Lord intended it to happen that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Or, per Sarah Sentilles<\/a>: \u201cIf the pregnancy is a gift from God and God is in control of everything, then the rape is also God\u2019s work \u2014 for that\u2019s how the woman got pregnant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garance Franke-Ruta<\/a> cuts to what I think is the core of Richard Mourdock\u2019s plan \u2014 or, his interpretation of God\u2019s plan, which amounts to the same thing: \u201cA man who forces a woman to bear his child through forced sex should be permitted to do so, because abortion is murder and every conceived child is a gift from God.\u201d<\/p>\n

That can be stated in the other direction as well: Abortion is murder and every conceived child is a gift from God, therefore<\/em> a man who forces a woman to bear his child through forced sex should be permitted to do so.<\/p>\n

Post-rape pregnancies are where blanket anti-abortion views become de facto support for coercive mating and the legally sanctioned denial of agency to women not only on the question of whether to have a child, but who the child\u2019s father should be.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u00a0 The idea that coerced reproduction is God\u2019s will is of a piece with the belief that the subjection of women is God\u2019s will. The two ideas are inextricably intertwined historically, and the former is stubbornly resilient relic of the latter. To unpack this a bit more: According to Mourdock\u2019s thinking, a man who forces a woman to have sex with him against her will is a criminal, but a man who forces a woman to bear his child through forced sex should be permitted to do so, because abortion is murder and every conceived child is a gift from God.<\/p>\n

Do we want to live in a country where any man at any time can decide he wants to bear children with any woman and she has no right to stop that from happening if he can overpower her by force? If we do \u2014 and that\u2019s the society Mourdock is advocating \u2014 then we have immediately left the society the feminists constructed and re-entered one where coerced mating is rewarded reproductively.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is Mourdock\u2019s extreme politics the consequence of his odious theology? Or is his odious theology a consequence of his extreme politics?<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter. Whichever one he latched onto first was bound to introduce the other. The two things require one another and cannot be separated.<\/p>\n

Here let\u2019s look a bit more at Mourdock\u2019s theology.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere Do You Find a Theology of \u2018God-Intended Rape\u2019?<\/a>\u201d Tony Jones asks. He answers with a quote from John Piper that offers a Calvinist perspective in which \u201cGod has a purpose\u201d for deadly bridge collapses.<\/p>\n

Other Calvinist theologians are appalled by Piper\u2019s views \u2014 and Mourdock\u2019s. G. Jeffrey MacDonald<\/a> of The Christian Science Monitor<\/em> offered several Calvinists the chance to distance themselves from Mourdock\u2019s notion of providential rape. They jumped at it:<\/p>\n

What Mourdock said \u201cis offensive,\u201d says Richard Lints, a theologian of the Reformed tradition, which has Calvinist roots, and dean at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass. \u201cThe clumsiness is [to] so align God with evil that God becomes a horrific figure. It\u2019s contrary to anything you read in scripture, and it removes the human responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026 \u201cThe Calvinist would say God has permitted [bad] things to happen\u201d because humans have free agency, says Gary Scott Smith, a Presbyterian minister and historian at Grove City College in Grove City, Pa. \u201cBut we should not attribute [evil things] to God, even though God can bring good things out of them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite<\/a> is a woman, and therefore someone John Piper refuses to be taught by. That\u2019s a shame, because she schools him and Mourdock on the implicit blasphemy of their providence-by-predator theology:<\/p>\n

Rape is sin by the perpetrator and God does not cause sin. Conception following rape is a tragedy, not part of \u201cGod\u2019s will.\u201d The capacity for tragedy to occur in human life, and indeed in what we call \u201cnatural evil\u201d like earthquakes, is a result of what Christians call \u201cthe fall\u201d from perfection as described in Genesis.<\/p>\n

When you make God the author of conception following rape, you make God the author of sin. This is a huge theological error, and one that Christian theologians have rejected since the first centuries of the faith.<\/p>\n

\u2026 It is cheap, easy and wrong to attribute all that happens in the world to God, as this makes God the author of sin and evil, and thus less than all good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

MacDonald\u2019s Monitor<\/em> article did find some Calvinist types willing to defend the Piper\/Mourdock idea of predatory providence. Peter Thuesen warns, \u201cIf you start restricting the scope of providence, that\u2019s a slippery slope to atheism. \u2026 It calls into question whether there really is a God who controls all things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not really, no. But it does call into question whether there really is a God who votes Republican due to their extreme opposition to legal abortion.<\/p>\n

As Franke-Ruta shows, that\u2019s the theological error here \u2014 not some warped form of Calvinism. Mourdock and Piper express a warped form of Calvinist theology because they started out as Calvinists, then allowed that belief to be warped by the inescapable ramifications of the anti-abortion dogma that they have made the bedrock core of their religion.<\/p>\n

Sarah Sentilles<\/a> notes that this warped \u201cGod intended to happen\u201d theology is a majority view among white American evangelicals, and provides a helpful description of how this shapes one\u2019s understanding of the world we live in:<\/p>\n

Imagine God up there looking down at the world and planning our days: Should the Giants go to the World Series or should it be the Cardinals? Giants. Should that woman make it through the intersection safely or should she wreck? Wreck. Should that child suffering from malaria live or should he die? Live. If God allows certain things to happen and prohibits others \u2014 if God intends<\/em> certain things instead of others \u2014 then it follows that God approves<\/em> of what God chooses. Then it follows that God intended you to get pregnant by being raped. He planned it; He asked for it; He wanted it.<\/p>\n

The logic is circular: whatever happens, God meant it to happen. The very occurrence of something, then \u2014 snow, a home run, illness, rape \u2014 becomes its own kind of justification, a way to prove it\u2019s what God wanted \u2014 which means all kinds of oppression can be cast as God\u2019s will. So where does it end? What can\u2019t be justified by appealing to God\u2019s intention in this way? This essay? God intended it (as if that will stop all the hate mail I\u2019m likely to get when this posts). Flood? God intended it. Pregnancy? God intended it. Environmental destruction? God intended it. Mass extinction? Hate crimes? Slavery? Genocide? God wanted it all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So in this view, every rape and every bridge collapse is what God intended and what God wanted and what God chose<\/em>. And thus, since rape and deadly bridge collapses are Bad Things, God must have intended and chosen them for some reason \u2014 to create something good out of those evils.<\/p>\n

Eric Reitan thus sees what Mourdock et. al. are attempting as a desperate kind of redemptive theology<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This theology is part of a broad class of theologies \u2014 what I\u2019ll call redemptive theologies \u2014 which share the idea that God cares about the evils of the world and is acting to redeem them. Since my own theology is a theology of redemption, I obviously don\u2019t think the redemptive aspect of Barnes\u2019 theology is where the trouble lies.<\/p>\n

But not all theologies of redemption are created equal. Barnes\u2019 theology makes God into a micromanager of sin, redeeming sins one by one, turning each in turn into another cool refreshing sip of spiritual lemonade. God is sovereign over every outcome, stepping in at every instance of wickedness to miraculously turn it to the good of those who trust in Him (sometimes by making babies out of rapes, sometimes in other ways).<\/p>\n

\u2026 Not every redemptive theology is like this. In fact, the core redemptive theology of Christianity isn\u2019t like this. Traditional Christian thought has it that God redeemed a broken world through a singular intervention in history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is Richard Mourdock’s extreme politics the consequence of his odious theology? Or is his odious theology a consequence of his extreme politics? It doesn’t matter. Whichever one he latched onto first was bound to introduce the other. The two things require one another and cannot be separated. Politics twists theology which deforms politics which warps theology which …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,44,27,28],"class_list":["post-11107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evangelicals","tag-abortion","tag-gender","tag-politics","tag-religious-right"],"yoast_head":"\nThe predatory providence of 'pro-life' Richard Mourdock (part 2)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Is Richard Mourdock's extreme politics the consequence of his odious theology? Or is his odious theology a consequence of his extreme politics? It doesn't matter. Whichever one he latched onto first was bound to introduce the other. The two things require one another and cannot be separated. Politics twists theology which deforms politics which warps theology which ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/10\/28\/the-predatory-providence-of-pro-life-richard-mourdock-part-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The predatory providence of 'pro-life' Richard Mourdock (part 2)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Is Richard Mourdock's extreme politics the consequence of his odious theology? Or is his odious theology a consequence of his extreme politics? It doesn't matter. Whichever one he latched onto first was bound to introduce the other. The two things require one another and cannot be separated. Politics twists theology which deforms politics which warps theology which ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/10\/28\/the-predatory-providence-of-pro-life-richard-mourdock-part-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"slacktivist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-10-29T02:13:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/files\/2012\/10\/MRRM2-300x238.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Fred Clark\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Fred Clark\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/10\/28\/the-predatory-providence-of-pro-life-richard-mourdock-part-2\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/10\/28\/the-predatory-providence-of-pro-life-richard-mourdock-part-2\/\",\"name\":\"The predatory providence of 'pro-life' Richard Mourdock (part 2)\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-10-29T02:13:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-10-29T02:13:52+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#\/schema\/person\/32666545e535b697afb93d9848dcfc47\"},\"description\":\"Is Richard Mourdock's extreme politics the consequence of his odious theology? Or is his odious theology a consequence of his extreme politics? It doesn't matter. Whichever one he latched onto first was bound to introduce the other. The two things require one another and cannot be separated. Politics twists theology which deforms politics which warps theology which ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/10\/28\/the-predatory-providence-of-pro-life-richard-mourdock-part-2\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/10\/28\/the-predatory-providence-of-pro-life-richard-mourdock-part-2\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/10\/28\/the-predatory-providence-of-pro-life-richard-mourdock-part-2\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The predatory providence of ‘pro-life’ Richard Mourdock (part 2)\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/\",\"name\":\"slacktivist\",\"description\":\""Test everything; hold fast to what is good."\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#\/schema\/person\/32666545e535b697afb93d9848dcfc47\",\"name\":\"Fred Clark\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7083ccd514d4fb8d5043041756d766a0?s=96&d=identicon&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7083ccd514d4fb8d5043041756d766a0?s=96&d=identicon&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Fred Clark\"},\"description\":\"Fred Clark is a graduate of Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (now called Palmer Seminary), of Eastern College (now called Eastern University) and of the fundamentalist Timothy Christian High School (still fundamentalist and still called Timothy Christian High School, but not really thrilled to have a snarky, liberal, tree-hugging, pro-choice, pro-GLBT, peacenik, commie, evolutionist as such a vocal alumnus). A former managing editor of Prism magazine, Fred worked in the parachurch nonprofit world for a decade and then for a decade in the newspaper biz. He began blogging in 2002. In 2003 he began writing a review of the best-selling Left Behind series. Eight years later he still hasn\u2019t finished reviewing the second book of that series and the experience has left him a broken shell of a man. Fred knows the difference between the possessive \u201cits\u201d and the contraction \u201cit\u2019s,\u201d and he is acutely bothered when others mistakenly confuse the two, yet he himself just kind of instinctively types the apostrophe whether or not it belongs there. Some feel this is his greatest hypocrisy, but those who know him better know better. He\u2019s guilty of much greater hypocrisies. Jesus loves Fred far more than Fred loves Jesus, but he at least has the decency to recognize the unfairness of that lopsided relationship and he has long wished that he were better at maybe kind of sort of doing something more to correct that some day. A Baptist, an amateur, a Gen-Xer, a Gemini and a Mets fan, Fred lives in Southeastern Pennsylvania with his wife and two teenage daughters. You can reach him via email at slacktivist at hotmail dot com.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/author\/fredclark1\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The predatory providence of 'pro-life' Richard Mourdock (part 2)","description":"Is Richard Mourdock's extreme politics the consequence of his odious theology? Or is his odious theology a consequence of his extreme politics? It doesn't matter. Whichever one he latched onto first was bound to introduce the other. The two things require one another and cannot be separated. Politics twists theology which deforms politics which warps theology which ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/10\/28\/the-predatory-providence-of-pro-life-richard-mourdock-part-2\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The predatory providence of 'pro-life' Richard Mourdock (part 2)","og_description":"Is Richard Mourdock's extreme politics the consequence of his odious theology? Or is his odious theology a consequence of his extreme politics? It doesn't matter. Whichever one he latched onto first was bound to introduce the other. The two things require one another and cannot be separated. Politics twists theology which deforms politics which warps theology which ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/10\/28\/the-predatory-providence-of-pro-life-richard-mourdock-part-2\/","og_site_name":"slacktivist","article_published_time":"2012-10-29T02:13:52+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/files\/2012\/10\/MRRM2-300x238.jpg"}],"author":"Fred Clark","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Fred Clark","Est. reading time":"8 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/10\/28\/the-predatory-providence-of-pro-life-richard-mourdock-part-2\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/10\/28\/the-predatory-providence-of-pro-life-richard-mourdock-part-2\/","name":"The predatory providence of 'pro-life' Richard Mourdock (part 2)","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-10-29T02:13:52+00:00","dateModified":"2012-10-29T02:13:52+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#\/schema\/person\/32666545e535b697afb93d9848dcfc47"},"description":"Is Richard Mourdock's extreme politics the consequence of his odious theology? Or is his odious theology a consequence of his extreme politics? It doesn't matter. Whichever one he latched onto first was bound to introduce the other. The two things require one another and cannot be separated. Politics twists theology which deforms politics which warps theology which ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/10\/28\/the-predatory-providence-of-pro-life-richard-mourdock-part-2\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/10\/28\/the-predatory-providence-of-pro-life-richard-mourdock-part-2\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/10\/28\/the-predatory-providence-of-pro-life-richard-mourdock-part-2\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The predatory providence of ‘pro-life’ Richard Mourdock (part 2)"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/","name":"slacktivist","description":""Test everything; hold fast to what is good."","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#\/schema\/person\/32666545e535b697afb93d9848dcfc47","name":"Fred Clark","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7083ccd514d4fb8d5043041756d766a0?s=96&d=identicon&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7083ccd514d4fb8d5043041756d766a0?s=96&d=identicon&r=pg","caption":"Fred Clark"},"description":"Fred Clark is a graduate of Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (now called Palmer Seminary), of Eastern College (now called Eastern University) and of the fundamentalist Timothy Christian High School (still fundamentalist and still called Timothy Christian High School, but not really thrilled to have a snarky, liberal, tree-hugging, pro-choice, pro-GLBT, peacenik, commie, evolutionist as such a vocal alumnus). A former managing editor of Prism magazine, Fred worked in the parachurch nonprofit world for a decade and then for a decade in the newspaper biz. He began blogging in 2002. In 2003 he began writing a review of the best-selling Left Behind series. Eight years later he still hasn\u2019t finished reviewing the second book of that series and the experience has left him a broken shell of a man. Fred knows the difference between the possessive \u201cits\u201d and the contraction \u201cit\u2019s,\u201d and he is acutely bothered when others mistakenly confuse the two, yet he himself just kind of instinctively types the apostrophe whether or not it belongs there. Some feel this is his greatest hypocrisy, but those who know him better know better. He\u2019s guilty of much greater hypocrisies. Jesus loves Fred far more than Fred loves Jesus, but he at least has the decency to recognize the unfairness of that lopsided relationship and he has long wished that he were better at maybe kind of sort of doing something more to correct that some day. A Baptist, an amateur, a Gen-Xer, a Gemini and a Mets fan, Fred lives in Southeastern Pennsylvania with his wife and two teenage daughters. You can reach him via email at slacktivist at hotmail dot com.","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/author\/fredclark1\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}