{"id":5639,"date":"2011-06-17T10:12:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T15:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2011-06-17T10:12:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T15:12:16","slug":"pilgrims-progress-liberace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/pilgrims-progress-liberace\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress &#038; Liberace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5639 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/pilgrims-progress-liberace\/pilgrimsprogress\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/pilgrimsprogress-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/pilgrimsprogress-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/pilgrimsprogress-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/pilgrimsprogress-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/pilgrims-progress-liberace\/liberace\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/liberace-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/liberace-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/liberace-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/liberace-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<br \/>\nMy mom read Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress (in updated language) to us as kids. I liked it. It captivated me. Some of John Bunyan&#8217;s Christian devotional classic has also brought me spiritual comfort in recent times, as well.<\/p>\n<p>But, each time I read it, I can&#8217;t help but thinking Mr Bunyan is beating me out of my senses with such heavy-handed allegory. Like the Liberace of Christian standards, Bunyan&#8217;s book says, &#8220;Helllllllooooooooooooo! I&#8217;m AN ALLEGORYYYYYYYY! I&#8217;m <strong>TELLING<\/strong> YOU SOMETHING!&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you feel this way about Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress?<br \/>\nIf you haven&#8217;t, read it, or listen to it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccel.org\/ccel\/bunyan\/pilgrim.html\">here<\/a> for <strong>free<\/strong>, and tell me what you like or don&#8217;t like about it.<\/p>\n<p>And brighten your day by enjoying this fun 1980s<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/dioRwB4RvrQ\"> Liberace Video<br \/>\n(You can tell he&#8217;s making fun of himself, and you have to love that sense of humor.)<br \/>\n<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dioRwB4RvrQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom read Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress (in updated language) to us as kids. I liked it. It captivated me. Some of John Bunyan&#8217;s Christian devotional classic has also brought me spiritual comfort in recent times, as well. But, each time I read it, I can&#8217;t help but thinking Mr Bunyan is beating me out of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/pilgrims-progress-liberace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress &#038; Liberace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4901,649,4898,6538,4896,4899,4900,53,4897,3195,87],"class_list":["post-5639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","tag-allegory","tag-christian","tag-christian-devotional-classic","tag-humor","tag-john-bunyan","tag-liberace","tag-liberace-video","tag-music","tag-pilgrims-progress","tag-spiritual-formation","tag-walking-with-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639","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=5639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5643,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions\/5643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}