{"id":166,"date":"2005-04-05T09:07:36","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T14:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/my-experience-at-playing-god\/"},"modified":"2005-04-05T09:07:36","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T14:07:36","slug":"my-experience-at-playing-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/my-experience-at-playing-god\/","title":{"rendered":"My experience at playing God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I once rehearsed a play in which I served as the &#8220;voice of God&#8221; replying to a delightful little girl saying her bedtime prayers. I frustrated the director. &#8220;No, say that line more majestically.&#8221; &#8220;No, say it more warmly.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I never got it right. I should have retorted, &#8220;What do you want me to be: both God and man?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rare to find someone who can do that successfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once rehearsed a play in which I served as the &#8220;voice of God&#8221; replying to a delightful little girl saying her bedtime prayers. I frustrated the director. &#8220;No, say that line more majestically.&#8221; &#8220;No, say it more warmly.&#8221; I never got it right. I should have retorted, &#8220;What do you want me to be: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desperate-suggestions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}