{"id":1238,"date":"2007-05-16T07:21:27","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T14:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2007-05-16T07:21:27","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T14:21:27","slug":"im-offended-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;M OFFENDED TOO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image1338\" style=\"width: 499px; height: 317px\" height=\"317\" alt=\"american101.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/american101.jpg\" width=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This morning on my way to work I stopped by Michelle&#8217;s coffee for a cup of Joe. Michelle was talking to me about\u00c2\u00a0my\u00c2\u00a0exhibit and a piece that someone wanted to purchase. A lady at the counter realized I was the artist, so instead of saying somthing to me, she chastized Michelle for the show. She said something like &#8220;I know it&#8217;s art, but . .. &#8221; But what? You are Un-American? You don&#8217;t beleive in the First Amendment? Really, tell us how you feel. Then she went on to complain about my painting &#8216;American History 101&#8217; She said as a Christian she was offended. I would be too, offended that American Christianity is a joke. One of the reasons I left the faith, is because they refuse to follow the teachings of their savior, Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the truth hurts.<\/p>\n<p>I stayed out of the conversation, I figured if Michelle wanted me to comment, she would have said something, besides, I&#8217;m a bearcat in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle lost a customer today, I guess the hazelnut syrup bottle will get dusty now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on my way to work I stopped by Michelle&#8217;s coffee for a cup of Joe. Michelle was talking to me about\u00c2\u00a0my\u00c2\u00a0exhibit and a piece that someone wanted to purchase. A lady at the counter realized I was the artist, so instead of saying somthing to me, she chastized Michelle for the show. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}