{"id":34927,"date":"2012-01-18T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/01\/18\/and-yet-in-modern-american-culture-sex-is\/"},"modified":"2012-01-18T00:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T00:34:00","slug":"and-yet-in-modern-american-culture-sex-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/01\/18\/and-yet-in-modern-american-culture-sex-is\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>And yet in modern American culture, sex is practically the only sin there is. When\u2019s the last time a Christian kid got thrown out of the house because they coveted others\u2019 possessions or they made fun of a homeless person? When\u2019s the last time a Christian lawmaker made hyperbolic, slightly-unhinged-sounding promises to a church group to fight the sin of avarice? When\u2019s the last time churches protested a movie because it depicted violence?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pervocracy.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/sinsational.html\">The Pervocracy: When did \u201csin\u201d become synonymous with sex?<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/a-blog-called-everything.tumblr.com\/\">a-blog-called-everything<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I always really liked this quote.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/froth.tumblr.com\/\">froth<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And yet in modern American culture, sex is practically the only sin there is. When\u2019s the last time a Christian kid got thrown out of the house because they coveted others\u2019 possessions or they made fun of a homeless person? When\u2019s the last time a Christian lawmaker made hyperbolic, slightly-unhinged-sounding promises to a church group &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/01\/18\/and-yet-in-modern-american-culture-sex-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9594],"class_list":["post-34927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-all-of-the-issues","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}