{"id":112,"date":"2005-03-20T21:05:43","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T02:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2007-11-09T00:15:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T05:15:38","slug":"more-on-cthulhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"More on C&#8217;thulhu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever stopped to wonder what might happen if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hello-cthulhu.com\/?date=2003-11-30\">Hello Kitty met up with the wicked elder god C&#8217;thulhu?<\/a> C&#8217;mon, &#8216;fess up, I&#8217;ll bet you have!<\/p>\n<p>And why do bother with such silliness on this minister&#8217;s blog? Silly stuff like this is a way to play around with ideas. Imagining C&#8217;thulhu makes us ask: What if all Western culture&#8217;s assumptions about God were utterly wrong? Imagining Hello Kitty as the embodiment of goodness is a little harder to justify, except as a reminder to have a sense of humor when it comes to religion. Frankly, Unitarian Universalism (and Unitarian Universalist blogs in particular) need a strong dose of humor &#8212; we take ourselves too seriously.<\/p>\n<p>(By the way, ever notice how Hello Kitty doesn&#8217;t have a mouth? How does she talk or eat? Chu!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever stopped to wonder what might happen if Hello Kitty met up with the wicked elder god C&#8217;thulhu? C&#8217;mon, &#8216;fess up, I&#8217;ll bet you have! And why do bother with such silliness on this minister&#8217;s blog? Silly stuff like this is a way to play around with ideas. Imagining C&#8217;thulhu makes us ask: What if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-cthulhu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}