{"id":511,"date":"2015-01-05T07:45:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T12:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/?p=511"},"modified":"2015-01-04T20:48:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T01:48:32","slug":"i-will-attend-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/2015\/01\/05\/i-will-attend-church\/","title":{"rendered":"I Will Attend Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/files\/2015\/01\/koala.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-512\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/files\/2015\/01\/koala.jpg\" alt=\"koala\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have decided to begin attending church with my wife and our three children.<\/p>\n<p>This is no New Year&#8217;s resolution. Nor does it signal a change in my negative assessment of Christianity or religion generally.<\/p>\n<p>This is, instead, about being with my wife and kids. It is about showing my support and love for them.<\/p>\n<p>They need me, I believe, and they need me to be part of the journeys they take, even if the paths they have chosen are not what I would\u00a0choose for myself. I have seen than I cannot<em> not<\/em> be with them.<\/p>\n<p>So, I will go to church services, sit quietly and respecfully, smile, and be present with my family. I am in no danger of ever becoming a believer, and I could never, ever accept Christianity. If going to church is a sacrifice, then I am sacrificing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have decided to begin attending church with my wife and our three children. This is no New Year&#8217;s resolution.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[10,27,32,12],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life","category-religion","tag-christianity","tag-marriage","tag-parenting","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/atheistintermarried\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}