{"id":661,"date":"2006-10-19T22:12:37","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T02:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2010-03-25T17:22:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T00:22:42","slug":"hardcore-for-the-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"Hardcore for the <em>what<\/em>?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being middle-aged now, and not living in Boston, I think I can be forgiven for not reading the <em>Weekly Dig<\/em>. But that meant I missed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklydig.com\/news_opinions\/articles\/hardcore_for_the_lord\/\">this article<\/a> on Hank Peirce, now minister at the Unitarian Universalist church in Medford, Mass., formerly a roadie for a number of hardcore punk rock bands. The unfortunate title for the article is &#8220;Hardcore for the Lord&#8221; &#8212; somehow, I think the writer didn&#8217;t quite grasp the essence of Unitarian Universalism. And there&#8217;s no mention of the punk rock worship services Hank did ten years ago at the Middle East in Cambridge. Still, it&#8217;s fun to read about a now-respectable minister&#8217;s former life. (And thanks to Philocrites for publicizing the article on his blog.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being middle-aged now, and not living in Boston, I think I can be forgiven for not reading the Weekly Dig. But that meant I missed this article on Hank Peirce, now minister at the Unitarian Universalist church in Medford, Mass., formerly a roadie for a number of hardcore punk rock bands. The unfortunate title for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,47],"tags":[495],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-religion","category-pop-culture","tag-punk-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6668,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/6668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}