{"id":47110,"date":"2014-11-11T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=47110"},"modified":"2014-11-09T20:57:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T03:57:30","slug":"christians-and-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/christians-and-mma\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians and MMA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Early Church, Christians shunned the gladiatorial games. What about today? The Classical Theist has a thirty-minute podcast addressing\u00a0the question: should Christians be involved in MMA (Mixed Martial Arts)?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmsullivan.com\/fight-church-the-morality-of-mma\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-47111 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-04-at-7.44.46-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-10-04 at 7.44.46 PM\" width=\"600\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-04-at-7.44.46-PM.png 600w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-04-at-7.44.46-PM-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I&#8217;m off to my sparing lesson\u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Early Church, Christians shunned the gladiatorial games. What about today? The Classical Theist has a thirty-minute podcast addressing\u00a0the question: should Christians be involved in MMA (Mixed Martial Arts)? Now, if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I&#8217;m off to my sparing lesson\u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/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":[17],"tags":[2855,2854],"class_list":["post-47110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-mma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47110","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=47110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49301,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47110\/revisions\/49301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}