{"id":276,"date":"2008-08-13T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2008\/08\/praise-lord.html"},"modified":"2008-08-13T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T20:20:00","slug":"praise-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2008\/08\/praise-lord.html","title":{"rendered":"Praise Lord!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our cable company went digital and we got about a zillion new channels, most of them completely worthless. There has never been so much nothing on TV. But&#8230; we&#8217;ve had the return of one channel that I&#8217;m in enthralled with and that Adam is completely horrified by. This is saying a lot. That man has watched <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetv.com\/bridezillas\/index.html\">Bridezilla<\/a><\/i>. He&#8217;s sat through <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sho.com\/site\/lword\/home.do\">The L Word<\/a><\/i>. He&#8217;s even been known to put up with <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxygen.com\/tvshows\/ToriandDean\/\">Tori and Dean<\/a><\/i>. But I&#8217;ve found his limits. And it&#8217;s going to cause problems. Because I can&#8217;t seem to avert my eyes from&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbn.org\/\">TBN<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know what it is! TBN got me through grad school. I&#8217;d procrastinate for hours on end by watching it. Something about Evangelical Christians just sucks me in. The other night there was a show hosted by Kirk Cameron (of my beloved <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088527\/\">Growing Pains<\/a><\/i>), and he was teaching us how we should be witnessing to complete strangers. He had this great analogy: If you saw an elevator plunging, and you noticed that at the bottom there was a gap, and in that gap children were playing, wouldn&#8217;t you run and save the kids? You wouldn&#8217;t stop and say, &#8220;Wait! They look like they&#8217;re having fun. And I don&#8217;t know them! Who am I to ruin their fun?&#8221; No, you&#8217;d save those kids! So why would you not save the world? Because you don&#8217;t know them? Because they&#8217;re having fun? According to Kirk, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wayofthemaster.com\/articles.shtml\">friends don&#8217;t let friends go to hell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They get me! I&#8217;m hooked! I&#8217;ll witness! I&#8217;ll send in my five dollars! But then it hits me. Oh right. I&#8217;m Jewish. Jesus does nothing for me. Damn! (Which, apparently, I am!)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I find it fascinating. And Adam? Not so much. He&#8217;s trying to figure out how to disable the channel. But there&#8217;s no way to do that without also disabling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nesn.com\/\">NESN<\/a>. And that&#8217;s not going to happen. Ah. What can I say? The lord works in mysterious ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our cable company went digital and we got about a zillion new channels, most of them completely worthless. There has never been so much nothing on TV. But&#8230; we&#8217;ve had the return of one channel that I&#8217;m in enthralled with and that Adam is completely horrified by. This is saying a lot. That man has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,17],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adam","tag-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}