{"id":48,"date":"2007-02-21T22:33:24","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T03:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crankopotamus.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2007-02-22T06:29:05","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T11:29:05","slug":"he-set-them-all-in-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/he-set-them-all-in-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"He set them all in motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, on the way home from church, Nate spoke up from his car seat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Daddy? Did God make us?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I was raised Unitarian Universalist, which is about as close as it can get to not actually being a religion at all, while still qualifying for tax-exempt status. I don&#8217;t really know all the answers, or how I feel about, say, the miracle of transubstantiation. God the Creator, though? That&#8217;s an easy one for me. Besides which, long before we got married, I had promised Sarah we would raise our child, or children, Catholic. I didn&#8217;t hesitate. &#8220;Yes, He did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did he make our car?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, on the way home from church, Nate spoke up from his car seat. &#8220;Daddy? Did God make us?&#8221; Now, I was raised Unitarian Universalist, which is about as close as it can get to not actually being a religion at all, while still qualifying for tax-exempt status. I don&#8217;t really know all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/he-set-them-all-in-motion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">He set them all in motion<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}