{"id":196,"date":"2005-05-10T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2019-01-09T21:08:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T21:08:33","slug":"from-monty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/10\/from-monty\/","title":{"rendered":"From Monty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christ resurfaces in VA, already entangled in legal battle<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/odd\/articles\/2005\/05\/10\/jesus_christ_in_legal_battle_for_wva\/\">Christ in VA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While others wait with bated breath to find out the sex of Britney&#8217;s child, or what will become of MJ, smaller stories like this can fall through the cracks. I think this is a colossal mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, when a 50 year old man changes his name to Jesus Christ (technically, he was 35 when he changed his name), moves to rural Virginia, and decides to dig his heels into a legal battle to ensure he can register his car under his new name, am I the only one that sits back stares aimlessly at my &#8220;Christ Walking with Children&#8221; Hummel figurine and wonders, what has gone awry with a legal system more concerned with a car registration under the name Jesus Christ, than the fact there IS, officially, a Jesus Christ?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m definitely not the poster boy for religion, but, I&#8217;m really not entirely sure it takes even the gruff tough love of Judge Judy to figure out that when a guy comes into your court and asks to change his name to the Son of God that you&#8217;ve got a bigger problem than what form to stamp. I mean does anyone else feel the irony that the person inclined to have himself referred to as the Lord is also the person most likely to, I don&#8217;t know, say&#8230;sever young woman&#8217;s head, and wear it as a helmet while defecating on the corpse?<\/p>\n<p>Call me St. Jude, but, I kind of feel like grabbin&#8217; a Good Book and maybe having a divine intervention between Mr. Christ and a padded room. Could just be me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ resurfaces in VA, already entangled in legal battle Christ in VA While others wait with bated breath to find out the sex of Britney&#8217;s child, or what will become of MJ, smaller stories like this can fall through the cracks. I think this is a colossal mistake. Folks, when a 50 year old man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[419,532,642],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-monty","tag-religion","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3965,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/3965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}