{"id":3482,"date":"2010-10-05T17:38:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T21:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2010-10-05T17:38:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T21:38:57","slug":"turning-my-blog-into-a-christian-the-oatmeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/turning-my-blog-into-a-christian-the-oatmeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning my blog into a (christian) &#039;The Oatmeal&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just went to the website called &#8220;The Oatmeal,&#8221; and now I realize what I want to do with my life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I want to author a Christian &#8220;The Oatmeal&#8221;. <\/strong>Actually I don&#8217;t, because that&#8217;s lame. Although the Oatmeal humor may be vulgar (at times), and often mildly to very offensive, the Oatmeal guy is brilliantly comedic, sort of. Well, he has his moments.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">So, in homage to that level of funny, he sometimes achieves, I give you, my own &#8220;The Oatmeal style post.&#8221; It is my response to something <em>I<\/em> highly dislike, Chain facebook status causes<\/span>. (And yes, this is a real example I plunked over here. These chain &#8220;post this to your fb status&#8221; are ploys to manipulate us, and I&#8217;m turning lemons into lemonade.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3483\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/fbstatus.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3483\" title=\"FBstatus\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/fbstatus.png?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fbstatus.png 632w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fbstatus-350x259.png 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fbstatus-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/fbstatus-600x443.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I finally had to write what I was thinking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Your responses are encouraged.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Facebook status chain letters make me feel homicidal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[3,649,1019,1191,1193,6538,3129,3239,3275,3403],"class_list":["post-3482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-fail","tag-christian","tag-domestic-violence","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-fail","tag-humor","tag-social-media","tag-status","tag-stuff-christians-like","tag-the-oatmeal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}