{"id":1045,"date":"2010-08-11T15:04:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T20:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2010-08-11T15:04:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T20:04:51","slug":"religious-recruiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/11\/religious-recruiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Recruiting?&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t watch much TV, usually just catch the news and weather early in the morning&#8230;&#8230;  Just before the primaries a few weeks ago, I noticed these commercials popping up in groups of two during the broadcast&#8230;..  They start off with a person introducing themselves &#8211; I&#8217;m so-and-so and I&#8217;m an housewife, sculptor, ex-druggie, etc&#8230;..  I&#8217;ve seen about 12 different ones&#8230;.  The 30 second commercial continues with I do this\/that &#8211; basically I&#8217;m normal person looking for the same things everyone else is looking for in life&#8230;.  The spot ends with, <strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m so-and-so and I&#8217;m a Mormon&#8221;<\/strong>&#8230;..  Then a medium font scrolls across the screen with their name and the web address &#8211; <strong>Mormon.org<\/strong>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Are the <strong>Mormons<\/strong> recruiting or just trying to convince people that their religion is made up of normal, everyday, God fearing people and are not to be confused with, say like, <strong>Muslims<\/strong>?&#8230;..  I mean, they both start with an &#8220;M&#8221; &#8211; Do they think people would confuse the two and take them for the radical one, although, the <strong>Mormons<\/strong> have some radical ideas, just not as violent&#8230;.  I have to admit I don&#8217;t know that much about either and <strong>God<\/strong> told me to stay out of it&#8230;.  He said I would not be an asset to either one&#8230;..  I&#8217;m still thinking on that one (<em>Will I be smoking a Turd in Hell?<\/em> (<strong>Robin Williams<\/strong>))&#8230;.  <strong><em>Any Comments or Commandments<\/em><\/strong>?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t watch much TV, usually just catch the news and weather early in the morning&#8230;&#8230; Just before the primaries a few weeks ago, I noticed these commercials popping up in groups of two during the broadcast&#8230;.. They start off with a person introducing themselves &#8211; I&#8217;m so-and-so and I&#8217;m an housewife, sculptor, ex-druggie, etc&#8230;.. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}