{"id":702,"date":"2021-05-01T22:16:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T05:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=702"},"modified":"2021-05-02T11:45:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T18:45:46","slug":"the-church-of-buvu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/05\/01\/the-church-of-buvu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church of BuVu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Blessmike2-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Blessmike2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"459\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Blessmike2-copy.jpg 560w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Blessmike2-copy-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>The Church of BuVu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">My friends and I<br \/>\ninvented<br \/>\nThe Church of BuVu.<br \/>\nWe pretend it\u2019s<br \/>\na holy meld of<br \/>\nBuddhism and Vudoo.<br \/>\nOur paperwork is in<br \/>\nperfect order,<br \/>\nso we\u2019re official.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">We\u2019re all priests.<br \/>\nBuFoons<br \/>\nwe call ourselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Our sacraments<br \/>\nare listed<br \/>\non the menu at<br \/>\nthe Bayview Restaurant.<br \/>\nMine are hashbrowns<br \/>\nand toast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">We meet on<br \/>\nthe Sabbath<br \/>\nto repent of our sins,<br \/>\nthe deadliest of which is<br \/>\ntaking ourselves<br \/>\nseriously,<br \/>\nfollowed by confession<br \/>\nof our failures to<br \/>\nimagine<br \/>\nmore practical Love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">The only requirement<br \/>\nto become a BuFoon<br \/>\nis to believe<br \/>\nin your own<br \/>\ndivinity,<br \/>\nbut that requirement<br \/>\nwill be waived<br \/>\nif you insist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Ellen Heinemann<br \/>\nfrom the Bless the Beasts and Children<br \/>\nHumane Society of Jefferson County and<br \/>\nThe Church of BuVu of Port Townsend<br \/>\n0.5k Fun Run, September, 2019)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Church of BuVu My friends and I invented The Church of BuVu. We pretend it\u2019s a holy meld of Buddhism and Vudoo. Our paperwork is in perfect order, so we\u2019re official. We\u2019re all priests. BuFoons we call ourselves. Our sacraments are listed on the menu at the Bayview Restaurant. Mine are hashbrowns and [&hellip;]<\/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-702","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\/702","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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}