{"id":37,"date":"2012-07-25T21:15:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T01:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/?p=37"},"modified":"2012-07-25T21:15:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T01:15:07","slug":"in-catholic-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/25\/in-catholic-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"In Catholic high school&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"High school graduation - June 2002 by hug-a-giraffe, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/effarig\/5092946881\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4070\/5092946881_af82e42efc.jpg\" alt=\"High school graduation - June 2002\" width=\"442\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I learned that Hell is supposed to be somewhere where God is not with you. This made no sense to me, because God is supposedly everywhere. When I asked my religion teacher about this, she said something to the effect of, &#8220;well, God chooses not to be in Hell.&#8221; It&#8217;s been a decade and I still don&#8217;t know what that means.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;my religion teacher told me that it was a sin to pollute the Earth and waste resources. This teacher drove a giant SUV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;my geometry teacher helped us with a mnemonic to remember what a six-sided polygon is called. She tiptoed to the classroom door, closed it quietly and then tiptoed back to where she had been standing. She learned forward and whispered, &#8220;Six. Sex. Hex.&#8221; She paused for a moment, clearly embarrassed about using the &#8220;S&#8221;-word. Then she opened the classroom door again and went back to teaching as though nothing had happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I learned that Hell is supposed to be somewhere where God is not with you. This made no sense to me, because God is supposedly everywhere. When I asked my religion teacher about this, she said something to the effect &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/25\/in-catholic-high-school\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erinmoconnor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}