{"id":685,"date":"2001-08-31T22:19:57","date_gmt":"2001-09-01T03:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=685"},"modified":"2001-08-31T22:19:57","modified_gmt":"2001-09-01T03:19:57","slug":"parish_the_thou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/08\/31\/parish_the_thou.html","title":{"rendered":"Parish the thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <i>finally<\/i> got around to updating the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gshep.org\">parish web page<\/a>.  Everyone at the church has been wildly enthusiastic about the job I&#8217;ve done on it, but nobody wants to help contribute (e.g., send me electronic documents to post).  Annoying.  Still, it&#8217;s a service to the church community, and (dare I say it) to God, which is a bit daunting when I consider my occasionally slothful attitude toward it.<\/p>\n<p>Still, if I had to commit a deadly sin related to my web work, sloth is probably the best.  Better than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushman.org\/seven\/\">others<\/a>.  I mean, I could see Pride (of what I&#8217;ve done), Envy (of others&#8217; web work), Wrath (pounding on the keyboard when my connection goes down doesn&#8217;t really help).  Not sure how Lust would play a role (unless I was doing one of those web sites).  Or Avarice (unless it&#8217;s &#8220;I want more megabytes!&#8221;).  Or Gluttony (wanting to consume those self-same megabytes?).<\/p>\n<p>The acronym I learned as a wee Catholic lad for the Seven Deadly Sins was PEWSLAG &#8212; Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Lust, Avarice, Gluttony.<\/p>\n<p>For a web development Seven Deadly Sins, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcm.rmit.edu.au\/EDIM\/Students\/jCorless\/01index.html\">here<\/a>.  Or for a more modern pop media interpretation, try <a href=\"http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/TTLF\/gilligan.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to updating the parish web page. 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