{"id":284,"date":"2007-02-20T19:43:42","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T01:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2007-02-20T19:49:24","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T01:49:24","slug":"back-when-i-believed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Back When I Believed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least when I might have stilled feared the wrath.  Yes I am a confirmed christian.  My father just sent me this picture today taken of me in 1993 on the day of my confirmation.  For those of you who don&#8217;t know confirmation is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrew.cmu.edu\/user\/newman\/Pages\/fr-sevensacraments.html\">1 of the 7 sacraments<\/a> of the catholic church. <a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/131\/396738635_3938de0338_b.jpg\"> The Sasquatch<\/a> will be taking place in one a week from Saturday, but that is another story.  Anyway I am not sure why he sent it to me, but it is definitely one of the most embarrassing photos of me ever taken.  Now that is saying a lot considering how many embarrassing photos that have been taken of me.  Since I do my best to embarrass others here I feel that it is only fair that I take my turn.  I I have to say about the hairstyle is that jesus made me do it.  So with no further ado&#8230;god bless!!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/images\/MICHAEL-1993_01X.jpg\">  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or at least when I might have stilled feared the wrath. Yes I am a confirmed christian. My father just sent me this picture today taken of me in 1993 on the day of my confirmation. For those of you who don&#8217;t know confirmation is 1 of the 7 sacraments of the catholic church. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8MZA-4A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hjays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}