{"id":1533,"date":"2022-03-16T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2022-03-16T11:31:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T18:31:36","slug":"dear-jon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/03\/16\/dear-jon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Jon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 <\/p>\n

Dear Jon\u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Jonathan Edwards –
\nmay I call you Jon? –
\nIt has come
\nto my attention
\nthat on or about
\nJuly 8, 1741,
\nin Enfield, Connecticut,
\nyou preached
\na sermon called
\nSinners In the Hands of
\nAn Angry God.<\/p>\n

Some have called it
\nthe Dawn of
\nThe First
\nGreat Awakening.<\/p>\n

I am calling it
\nThe Great
\nSlander.<\/p>\n

I am backdating
\nthis letter to
\nJuly 4, 1741,
\nto allow a fews days
\nfor delivery,
\nand to celebrate
\nmy growing
\nIndependence from the
\ncockamamie notion that
\nGod is angry
\nwith his\/her
\n(it defies pronouns)<\/p>\n

Beloved
\nAdored
\nCherished
\nEndeared
\nOnes.<\/p>\n

\n

Not even with you,
\nin spite of your
\nGreat
\nBesmirch!<\/p>\n

Nevertheless,
\nin hopes of
\nprecluding the
\nPuritan Stain
\nupon
\nthe Beauty of
\nAll That Is,<\/p>\n

I must ask you to
\nCease and Desist
\nfrom preaching
\nthe Libel of an
\nangry
\nGod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Dear Jon\u2028 Dear Jonathan Edwards – may I call you Jon? – It has come to my attention that on or about July 8, 1741, in Enfield, Connecticut, you preached a sermon called Sinners In the Hands of An Angry God. Some have called it the Dawn of The First Great Awakening. I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}