{"id":43378,"date":"2014-08-12T06:59:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T13:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=43378"},"modified":"2015-03-19T22:16:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T05:16:13","slug":"quick-apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/12\/quick-apologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Apologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #444444\">I\u2019ve recently had a couple of people tell me that they like my blog because my posts are\u2026short. Well, I guess there are worse compliments you could get! Seriously though, one of the reasons that people seem to come back to my blog is that my articles are rarely very long and therefore easily readable\u00a0during a short coffee break.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444\">In light of this, I\u2019m going to start doing something new. I\u2019m now going to try and post a \u201cQuick Apology\u201d most weeks. These will be articles on apologetics, but they will be short and snappy. The goal is to help readers better defend their faith by consuming bite-sized posts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444\">I\u2019ve often found that when I\u2019ve been called to give an account for my faith (<a style=\"color: #cd4517\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=1%20Peter+3:15&amp;version=RSVCE\" target=\"_blank\">1 Peter 3:15<\/a>), I am rarely granted much time to give a response. There isn\u2019t time to offer a thorough explanation or refutation. Instead, I have to give an \u201celevator pitch\u201d, a short 30 second response.\u00a0That is how these posts will be structured. I will present an objection to the Catholic Faith and then give an extremely short response designed to answer the objection and open up the conversation to further dialogue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444\">In my <a title=\"Quick Apology: Is Mary \u201cMother of God\u201d?\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/12\/is-mary-mother-of-god\/\">next post<\/a> I&#8217;ll respond to the objection given by some to calling Mary &#8220;Mother of God&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve recently had a couple of people tell me that they like my blog because my posts are\u2026short. Well, I guess there are worse compliments you could get! Seriously though, one of the reasons that people seem to come back to my blog is that my articles are rarely very long and therefore easily readable\u00a0during a short coffee break. In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2969,2766],"class_list":["post-43378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","tag-featured","tag-quick-apologies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43379,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43378\/revisions\/43379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}