{"id":1554,"date":"2009-05-18T07:37:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T13:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2013-06-15T07:45:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T14:45:28","slug":"eliminating-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/eliminating-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliminating Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How shall we then not fear&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:-1.2em\">\n<li>heights?<\/li>\n<li>water?<\/li>\n<li>death?<\/li>\n<li>conservatives?<\/li>\n<li>life?<\/li>\n<li>government?<\/li>\n<li>fire?<\/li>\n<li>public speaking?<\/li>\n<li>strangers?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is that how we overcome homophobia as well? (I need a barfing emoticon for that <em>term<\/em>! <i>Term<\/i>, OK? Not <i>people<\/i>.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the headline that precipitates such thoughts: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20090517\/lf_afp\/worldsocietygay_20090517212623\">Gays, lesbians in worldwide call for end to homophobia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do I know I suffer from homophobia?<\/p>\n<p>How do I overcome it?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another headline this morning: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20090518\/pl_nm\/us_obama_abortion_3\">Obama urges &#8220;fair-minded&#8221; abortion debate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fair-minded &#8212; what&#8217;s that?<\/p>\n<p>What does it sound like?<\/p>\n<p>What are some fair-minded words?<\/p>\n<p>And now&#8230;to connect the first headline to the second:<\/p>\n<p>Mr. President, world citizens, ladies and laddies: <strong>I call for an end to life-o-phobia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do I know my fears better than you know them? (Says who?)<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[389,16,8],"tags":[838,640],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-days-of-noah","category-politics","tag-abortion","tag-homosexuality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-p4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}