{"id":11534,"date":"2007-08-06T15:37:06","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T22:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/08\/06\/while-im-casting-about-for-something-interesting-to-write-about.html"},"modified":"2007-08-06T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T22:37:06","slug":"while_im_casting_about_fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/06\/while_im_casting_about_fo.html","title":{"rendered":"While I’m casting about for something interesting to write about …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… I’ll link back to a very nice recent post by Doyce — Your god, your car, and you … and me<\/a>.  “Your religion (or, more broadly, your faith) is like your car …”<\/em><\/p>\n

I like it very much.<\/p>\n

As for me — well, yeah, I have a great big staid, conservative boat of a something-or-another, old-fashioned in style and with way too many bells and whistles on the dash for some tastes … but I’ve done some serious tinkering under the hood to tweak the performance, soup up the horsepower, help the mileage a lot, and generally vastly improve the ride over something just off the lot (at least to my taste).  A few parts from here, a bit of something  I read in an article, replacing some of the components whole with stuff I picked up along the road — it’s pretty much violated the warranty, I’m sure, but as long as I’m willing to take responsibility for maintaining it myself, I think I can keep it running …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… I’ll link back to a very nice recent post by Doyce — Your god, your car, and you … and me.  “Your religion (or, more broadly, your faith) is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[5,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41936,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/10\/talkin-bout-my-religion.html","url_meta":{"origin":11534,"position":0},"title":"Talkin' 'bout my religion","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 10-May-14 11:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"One interesting thing about my dad passing away (well, interesting for me) has been the time and focus it's given me on matters of faith and religion -- both the Big Questions (death and afterlife, the problem of suffering, things like that) and more trivial ones (yeah, I should probably\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/hwh1959%20gloria%20and%20hal%20wedding2%20orig.jpg.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8129,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/12\/fishy.html","url_meta":{"origin":11534,"position":1},"title":"Fishy","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-May-05 7:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm not sure I agree with Scott's assessment that \"This is all that's wrong with our country,\" but it's a fine example of ... what, near-blasphemous conflation between Bush and...","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/bushfish.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":26223,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/rick-santorum-lives-in-a-topsy-turvy-world.html","url_meta":{"origin":11534,"position":2},"title":"Rick Santorum lives in a topsy-turvy world","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Feb-12 8:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... where he thinks people do the exact opposite of what they really do. 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