{"id":120,"date":"2007-02-13T22:56:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T06:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2007-02-13T22:56:03","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T06:56:03","slug":"remnants-of-seminary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/13\/remnants-of-seminary\/","title":{"rendered":"Remnants of Seminary&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first class in seminary taught me the importance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historic66.com\/\">Route 66<\/a>. (The 6&#8217;s remind me of the 6 principal parts of the Greek verb, you see.) So the last time I traveled across country I made it a point to stop at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.route66.org\/index2.html\">one<\/a> of the Route 66 museums along America&#8217;s &#8220;Mother Road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWhat do you think I should see at the aforesaid museum, but a reminder of a lecture from <a href=\"http:\/\/ptsem.edu\/Academics\/departments\/PT\/courses.htm\">PR201 or PR202<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t recall the topic of the lecture, but I remember the lecturer was [the guy who carries the mace]. A later lecturer taught us that sometimes a sermon illustration can be <em>too<\/em> vivid. That was the case with this lecture, I suppose, because instead of remembering the point of the lecture (assuming there <em>was<\/em> a point), I remember the illustration, which was that some songs have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsfreak.com\/t\/tom+jones\/thunderball_20138376.html\">meaningless lyrics<\/a>. And speaking of illustrations, look at this one: it&#8217;s from the album jacket. CD&#8217;s can&#8217;t touch this stuff.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/img\/20070213-album-tball.jpg\" alt=\"Album jacket for the \"Thunderball\" motion picture soundtrack.\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first class in seminary taught me the importance of Route 66. (The 6&#8217;s remind me of the 6 principal parts of the Greek verb, you see.) So the last time I traveled across country I made it a point to stop at one of the Route 66 museums along America&#8217;s &#8220;Mother Road.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-1W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}