{"id":635,"date":"2008-03-04T21:57:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T05:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/03\/04\/buying-converts\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T21:57:52","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T05:57:52","slug":"buying-converts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/03\/04\/buying-converts\/","title":{"rendered":"buying converts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CBC National newscast reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/national\/blog\/video\/internationalus\/christianity_comes_to_thailand_1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Christianity Comes to Thailand<\/strong><\/a>. But not in a way that we rejoice in, at least, not in some cases. Apparently some groups have been &#8216;buying conversion&#8217;. I can&#8217;t imagine anything more disappointing. How can anyone think this is the right thing to do?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/don-sig3.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CBC National newscast reports Christianity Comes to Thailand. But not in a way that we rejoice in, at least, not in some cases. Apparently some groups have been &#8216;buying conversion&#8217;. I can&#8217;t imagine anything more disappointing. How can anyone think this is the right thing to do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-af","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}